Thursday, January 24, 2008
The Madness that is FACEBOOK!
I was one of those people who was so anti-facebook. I thoughtv it was a total waste of time to sit in front of the computer for hours looking at pictures and "poking" people. Until one day I get a welcome to facebook email. I hadn't joined so I was confused. Well my roommates made a page for me and put alot of false info on there. I was set-up! I was forced to go on there and edit the fake page they made. I've been hooked ever since. One of the major functions of this site is that it (re)connects people from all over the world. I have reestablished many friendships due to facebook. A really good friend of mine was in Ghana for a semester and facebook was our primary source of communication. I got to see the pictures she took the same day they were taken and met the people she was there with just by going onto their pages.As I look at the pictures of some of my friends most of them are drunken party pictures. The interesting thing about albums are that there are also many of family celebrations such as hoildays and weddings. In recent months facebook has added so many new features. In my opinion its annoying because I get at least 10-15 emails a day that I have new messages or someone has updated their moods. Most people go onto the site to post pictures, look at new pictures, checks status, and emails. Alot of people use it as free pub for their events. The downfall of this is that this virtual communcation is that it is starting to replace face-to-face interactions. Also you get those crazy, stalker people that you met at a party, they take a picture of you, post and tag you, then never leave you alone. Aside from that its a pretty fun site and a effective social network.
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It's so true that Facebook has become a way to keep in touch with people. My best friend studied abroad in Argentina last year, and Facebook really made contacting her much easier. I could leave her a message as simple as, "call me when you get a phone card." I loved being able to see pictures of her while she was in Argentina instead of waiting for her to come home to see where she had been living for the past year. I use Facebook for it's original purpose- messaging, uploading/viewing photos, keeping in touch, etc. All the applications have become overwhelming and most of them really don't have a point in the first place.
The next step is for Facebook and other networking sites to be the way in which we view the internet. It won't be Facebook or MySpace. Instead, it will be just how we access any and all information on the internet. People will begin to use these tools for more intellectual or professional networking purposes...or we'll keep poking and posting pictures of drunken debauchery.
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