I have had facebook for sometime now. And I have notice many things that have caught my attention while being on it. First would be the numerous of random people that send me emails, they always say I saw you play basketball on tv we should hangout sometime. To me that is one thing I dislike about the communication proccess on facebook. If you do not create privacy on your account anyone can facebook and talk to you and that is something I can control in this situation. Another point is that sometimes you do not want people to see what you write to others. So to handle that you send them a private message. I have found that I do this to most of my close friends that I often talk to. On facebook most of your friends post something on your wall all the time. I feel that most people are starting to use this commmunication more than they would than calling their friend on the phone. Since most people are spending their time on the internet they tend to check their facebook wall in the process. Now I have also notice that it is another way to show people what they have been doing over their weekend, night, or vacation by posting up many pictures of their friends and themselves having fun and you can actually comment on them on your own. Its another way to reminece about the night or time you had with this person. I have notice also that this communication system also works as a dating system. I have had friends who go on facebook and look up girls that they find attractive and basically talk to them and try create relationships. Also when people look at your profile it tells them about yourself, so others can get a feel of how you are and if it is worth communicating to your not. In some since I feel that facebook is a tacky way of communicating to your others. I feel someone use it has a dating service or something that worthless. I can understand why this communication has also been made into success because everyone is spending their free time on facebook so it works. I have also notice people on facebook while they are in class it just shows exactly how much people are attracted to facebook. You can talk to all your friends at once, it is way easier than sending a email and actually talking to them on the phone. And you can see their faces on facebook look at their pictures as if they were really there. I think that facebook is also another communication that has been taking over in the new century. Now kids parents are getting facebook. I went to Jesuit high School and I have heard that the faculty actually creates one to monitor what exactly kids are doing outside of school (I think that is just crazy). Facebook is a big hit for new communication.
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January 22, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I can’t believe faculty are actually monitoring what their students are doing outside of school, that’s the parents job. I related to your first comment about how people would message you saying they saw you play on TV, as if that meant they knew you. At the first college I went to (A small one) I worked at the dinning hall and so came into contact with lots of students on a daily basis. For some reason, this made people think they knew me and that we were friends or something and so would try and add me on Facebook, or Myspace. I just never really got it, I was just doing my job. Many of my friends that worked there had the same experiences. I am just not one of those people to have long random friends lists, if you are on my friends list, I know you outside of the internet.
January 27, 2009 at 12:48 am
Hey Man,
I saw you on TV, we should hang out. No not really, just kidding man.
Facebook seems to open up your world to others and it seems as if it is a way that you can broadcast yourself to others. I made my accounts mostly to check out pictures of friends and to see what people have been up too. I don’t really pay much attention to them much anymore because I find them to just be annoying. I have had a couple girls tell me that they wanted to check out my Facebook account before we hung out, “to spy on me,” pretty weird. I feel like the younger generation is addicted to all these modes of instant communication, text, facebook, and myspace. You are right, there where times in class on campus when kids would just be checking out their accounts instead of paying attention in class, and I found it to be ridicules.
Jared