….Facebook

July 14, 2008 at 6:57 am (Uncategorized)

As I sit and wonder what my media blog should be about, I am using one of the most “hot” media sources there are out there…dun dun dun FACEBOOK.  Sometimes I am embarrased to say how much time I spend doing nothing browsing on facebook.  I feel like this has became a huge part of my generation.  Some consider it wasting time, but it seems as though many spend much time, maybe a bit too much time on this crazy surface, information, picture world they call the internet.  I don’t like to be too attached or too extreme so anytime I find myself rushing to the computer and quickly typing the FA I get a bit embarrased and tell myself I shouldn’t spend as much time on facebook.  So I’m making a list of pros and cons of facebook. Interesting.

Some negative things about facebook ( in my opinion):

  • probably and most defintely a lot of more important things you(I) should and could be doing
  • seeing other people’s lives in pictures and just knowing too much about people (a little creepy)
  • instead of going out looking at images of people doing what you could be doing…getting a little weird and confusing
  • being exposed!
  • no privacy
  • people knowing about your life
  • checking on ex-boyfriends facebook page (i’m sounding a little crazy but i’m really just trying to think of all of the cons of facebook) or current crush, bf/gf, whatever the case may be

 

Pros:…….there must be a couple, right? 

  • reconnecting with people you lost touch with and really wanted to reconnect with but just didn’t really know how or didn’t remember
  • reminding you its your friends birthday!! :) facebook birthday messages, always fun :)
  • spying on your current or ex-bf…could be looked at both ways (hahah but I would say that was a con ;) )
  • staying in touch
  • I guess meeting new people 
  • sharing pictures and laughs with friends
  • laughing at your friends/ with your friends 
I think that’s pretty detailed for now.  But now that i look back at the list, there are a pretty decent number of pros and cons which makes me think that this is one of the reasons facebook is just so popular. It’s a love/ hate thing, for me at least. 
This is pretty silly but I thought it was appropriate for all of the “facebookers”
The END

2 Comments

  1. skyesmith said,

    July 19, 2008 at 8:21 pm

    oh my gosh…. that video is hilarious!! I see that it’s making fun of facebook but in the end, it really is another facebook promoter. all publicity is good publicity right?

  2. Danny said,

    July 21, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Wow, I did not know that all of that could be done with this Facebook thing. Scary!

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