Liking things
Friday, June 25, 2010
I was looking over at SG blog, and in the cbox, I saw 'Deva: Iwish i could 'like' your post Betty =)' and it made me think about how much Facebook is influencing us. It has become this massive global phenomenon. I mean, how many times have you looked at something, and thought 'Where's the like button!?' Even on other social networking sites and stuff – like twitter, I just want to like people's tweets … ONLY TO REALISE THAT I CAN'T! Facebook is so silly now. It's been taken over by advertisements and spam and other things are a breach of privacy – for all of those who do Legal Studies D: But yeah. Whenever I go on that site, it's just advertisements everywhere, and just about every second group is one of those 'click like to see the picture' groups, I mean shouldn't people KNOW BY NOW that they just lead you to some random page with 14010294 pop ups, and making you fill out some 'survey' and like, scroll down or some shit. And I even get random friend requests now from companies and stuff that want to sell me their stuff. Facebook has become this massive billboard now. Speaking of Twitter, I STILL don't understand it. I must say, it IS sort of fun though J. It's like eavesdropping in a way-- except it's actually OKAY to chime in and out of conversations. More people should join it though (it just means more conversations for me to see xD) Some social networking sites are just silly. Like Formspring! I think the site's original purpose has been completely buried in the potential of the site. Like, people just use it to hide behind their keyboards and say stupid things. BUT YOU DO KNOW THAT IP ADDRESSES CAN BE TRACKED. I'm not sure about Formspring, but even if you post in the cbox as anon, I DO KNOW WHO'S BEEN SAYING WHAT ;) JOKES – I'm not technologically adept enough to figure it out xD
- tonia
Liking things
Friday, June 25, 2010
I was looking over at SG blog, and in the cbox, I saw 'Deva: Iwish i could 'like' your post Betty =)' and it made me think about how much Facebook is influencing us. It has become this massive global phenomenon. I mean, how many times have you looked at something, and thought 'Where's the like button!?' Even on other social networking sites and stuff – like twitter, I just want to like people's tweets … ONLY TO REALISE THAT I CAN'T! Facebook is so silly now. It's been taken over by advertisements and spam and other things are a breach of privacy – for all of those who do Legal Studies D: But yeah. Whenever I go on that site, it's just advertisements everywhere, and just about every second group is one of those 'click like to see the picture' groups, I mean shouldn't people KNOW BY NOW that they just lead you to some random page with 14010294 pop ups, and making you fill out some 'survey' and like, scroll down or some shit. And I even get random friend requests now from companies and stuff that want to sell me their stuff. Facebook has become this massive billboard now. Speaking of Twitter, I STILL don't understand it. I must say, it IS sort of fun though J. It's like eavesdropping in a way-- except it's actually OKAY to chime in and out of conversations. More people should join it though (it just means more conversations for me to see xD) Some social networking sites are just silly. Like Formspring! I think the site's original purpose has been completely buried in the potential of the site. Like, people just use it to hide behind their keyboards and say stupid things. BUT YOU DO KNOW THAT IP ADDRESSES CAN BE TRACKED. I'm not sure about Formspring, but even if you post in the cbox as anon, I DO KNOW WHO'S BEEN SAYING WHAT ;) JOKES – I'm not technologically adept enough to figure it out xD
- tonia
