Nowdays,
When I meet new friends, instead of asking them for their telephone number, I will ask them “what’s your Facebook?”;
When I am working on a project with partners, instead of booking a time available for everyone, I will create a Facebook group, add everyone in and post any thoughts I come up with in the group;
When I want to tale to a friend online, instead of logging in MSN, I will open the Facebook website to see if he or she is online and send him or her a Facebook message;
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For the record, I did not started to use Facebook until July this year. Before then, I used the equivalent version Renren in Mainland China China
Facebook-addicted? Definitely. But why?
First of all, unlike Renren that connects only with people within Mainland China U.S. , the U.K. , Russia , Lebanon , Czech Republic , Slovakia , Syria , Iraq Burma
Facebook is a social networking site in its nature. Regarding this, it is doing a great job. One good thing about using Facebook to connect with your friends is that you are learning what they’ve been up to PASSIVELY instead of getting to know ACTIVELY. I’m not saying that this is a a positive side, but it surely saves a lot of trouble calling people asking them how are they. Facebook allows us to take a few steps back and take control of our social network.
What’s more, Facebook helps maintain constantly going-on conversations. Those status updates, messages and groups discussions are always there; they are saved on the server. When you open your Facebook, they won’t go away. Whether participants of conversation is online or not is not an issue anymore – they can still see it when they get on. This feature helps us go beyond the limit of time and space. It also reduces the pressure of face-to-face real time communication.
Four months ago, I did not know how to tag people on Facebook. Now, Facebook is the best way to reach me and I’m writing this post to say good things about it. How amazing!
I like the idea of constantly going-on conversations!This is for sure one of the benefits of facebook. Like when you haven't met a friend for a long time, but you're really like being with him/her for a long time!
ReplyDeleteBeing passively /actively is not really matter,
but, at least FB brings people closer as it is very convenient to use...certainly, some may argue FB reduce the quality of a relationship as we meet face to face/ phone in a lesser chance...but what FB can do is to connect people together like what you said in the post. And if one really wants to maintain a better relationship or to know someone in a deeper way, they'll choose other method! Actually even now, some of my friends in the similar age do not have a FB account! haha
Facebook is a social networking site that helps us know about the current status of many friends. Sometimes when I'm a PASSIVE user, I see FB an online newspaper with different topics that are of interest to my friends. It is much easier to post links related to what we wanna talk about. For example if everyone was talking about a movie trailer, someone could post a link and then make an AD on finding people to join them to watch the film. When I'm an ACTIVE user, I tend to create EVENTS or invite people to have group discussions from assignments to gossip.
ReplyDeleteI think FB is a useful platform to keep in touch with a wide number of friends in a busy and hectic lifestyle like in Hong Kong. If I had free time normally I'd meet with friends in person and chat then.
I think Facebook can actually bring people closer together, especially those friends you haven't seen for a long time. With Facebook, I can send a message to the whole group of friends whom I want to meet, and everyone can suggest a time and date that they preferred. The whole process is so transparent and easy to manage!
ReplyDeleteReferring to Alex's comment, I actually succeeded in persuading my friends to watch a movie with me by posting the trailer on my Facebook. Sometimes it is difficult to persuade people a movie is great with just your words; it is more persuasive if you can instantly show them the trailer so arouse their interests.
Facebook is great that it eliminates the obstacles between a relationship, such as the geographical distance, time differences, etc. Even if your friend is studying overseas, you still know what s/he is up to, and you can still converse in Facebook. It's just like s/he hasn't left at all!
Hi Jojo, I have been a Facebook addict for a month :) because I really like using the inbox message function, it has totally replaced my usage of MSN! And what's more, as these messages as you say are saved on server, I can access the information everywhere with internet, just more convenient than checking the message history on MSN.Thanks for letting me know that Renren is only used in China, but I think renren is an alternative to communicate with friends from China :) Enjoy using FB.
ReplyDeleteThank you guys for all your kind comments. It surprises me that you all said some good things about Facebook. I was expecting some arguments on its downsides. It's good to know that I'm not alone!
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