Friday, September 23, 2011

CE: The Hype Of Social Networking.

Facebook. One of the most popular social networking websites. Facebook is so common among society nowadays, ranging  from 10 year olds, to 60 year olds. Some of the main questions you ask someone when you meet them is, "what's your name?" "Where do you go to school?" &"Do you have a facebook?" Now that this website has become such a necessity in life, do you think you could live without it?
Everyone uses facebook. And now that it's becoming more and more popular, facebook decided to update itself by adding some new changes. Of course, many both agree and disagree with the changes. Some say, "the changes are ridiculous, I don't want to see what everyone's doing at every second of everyday." &others say, "I like the new changes, it's allowing access to so much more." Personally, I'm a bit of both. I do get annoyed by the changes sometimes, but on the other hand, I could really care less.
With all the talk of changes, and facebook shutting down, I wonder how many people could live without it. Honestly, I do spend a lot of time on facebook. I'm always logged in, but that's only because I'm always on mobile. But if it came down to it, I could probably live without it. The way I think of it, facebook is just a hype, a phase. Who knows how long this phase will last, but I consider it like myspace. Remember that old thing? People used to treat myspace like facebook, until facebook came along. And what's going to happen when a new, improved technological website comes along? I think we'll most likely over time, abandon facebook. So ask yourself this, do you think you could live without facebook?

2 comments:

  1. Oh yeah! Facebook is a highly dispensable part of my life. I think the reason people like it is because they're too lazy to keep up with everyone they know, so facebook compiles all their activity into a news feed and gives you a really simple snooping layout so you can get into everyone else's business.
    That's what people like to do, snoop on other people. Don't lie.
    I read somewhere that Tumblr was the purest, mose pristine form of blogging, without fear of judgement, Tumblrers can blog and reblog self-importantly to their hearts' content. Tumblr also has a user retention rate (number of users who stay after signing up) of something like 80%, which is much higher than facebook's.
    Personally I would abandon facebook if it weren't for most of the people I know being adamant about using only facebook when they go on the internet, sigh.

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  2. Well..."too lazy" is one way to put it, but honestly after college when all my friends were scattered to the four winds, it really was kind of difficult to keep up with people. I started using FB a couple of years ago and for that purpose, it was a godsend.

    Mind you, I've gotten less and less personally interested in FB over time, and have found other uses for it, such as communicating with students...(Then there are a host of OTHER reasons people use FB like playing games, which I could don't care about in the slightest.)

    In the end, my feelings about FB are very mixed...but like Irene says, it's what everybody and their grandma is using for now, so it's become almost "mandatory" if you're trying to keep in touch.

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