Good Grief!
Interesting phenomenon this Facebook thing...
You get people that you haven't heard from in years, if not decades, wanting to add you as a friend. Then once you accept you never hear another word from them. Are they just trying to rack up as many 'friends' as they can (oooh, I have a zillion and one friends, I'm so popular), or are they being nosy and seeing how their life compares to yours, or are they actually going to get round to talking to you?
It also seems to have changed the dynamics of human interaction... instead of people now calling you on the phone, or even texting and at worse emailing you, they now write you messages on a 'wall' or invite you to an event or post what they're doing now and how they're feeling. So much for humans being sociable creatures that crave each others company if all that they do is use an electronic means that you may not see for a week, or month if you're not the type to check it everyday.
Heck there are even instances of workplace bans on Facebook... people getting withdrawal symptoms when it was down for two hours... let alone the fact that people are pasting their whole lives on it so any identity thief, pedophile, general nasty type person can access your details (and as it's all about networking) those of your friends and their friends and their friends (wonder if you could connect to everyone of the millions on it?!)!
Wonder if the current courst case going through in America regarding the possibility that the idea was stolen and the consequent shut down of the site would mean that they'd have to set up therapy groups for the addicts to cope?!
You get people that you haven't heard from in years, if not decades, wanting to add you as a friend. Then once you accept you never hear another word from them. Are they just trying to rack up as many 'friends' as they can (oooh, I have a zillion and one friends, I'm so popular), or are they being nosy and seeing how their life compares to yours, or are they actually going to get round to talking to you?
It also seems to have changed the dynamics of human interaction... instead of people now calling you on the phone, or even texting and at worse emailing you, they now write you messages on a 'wall' or invite you to an event or post what they're doing now and how they're feeling. So much for humans being sociable creatures that crave each others company if all that they do is use an electronic means that you may not see for a week, or month if you're not the type to check it everyday.
Heck there are even instances of workplace bans on Facebook... people getting withdrawal symptoms when it was down for two hours... let alone the fact that people are pasting their whole lives on it so any identity thief, pedophile, general nasty type person can access your details (and as it's all about networking) those of your friends and their friends and their friends (wonder if you could connect to everyone of the millions on it?!)!
Wonder if the current courst case going through in America regarding the possibility that the idea was stolen and the consequent shut down of the site would mean that they'd have to set up therapy groups for the addicts to cope?!
posted by Tresi at 8:17 pm
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