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If you were to ask me how many friends I have I would say that I have a lot of friends but no more than 15 good friends. Now, if you were to ask my facebook that you would learn that I have over 450 friends. I am going to be honest, I barely know most of those people, and I couldn't care less about what they had for lunch or what their significant other said or gave them. Most people say oh, the more "friends" you have the more popular you are or the cooler
you are...In my personal opinion, the way I look at it is, the more friends I have on Facebook the more crowded my newsfeed will be with a bunch of random crap. Now, Facebook isn't all bad obviously. It is a good way to keep up with your friends lives. Especially the ones who don't live close to you. One of my favorite parts of Facebook would have to be how you can create groups and events. I am apart of several groups and they are very convenient. I am always extra careful about what I post on there. I don't want to be applying a job and end up being denied because of something I said/posted on Facebook ten years prior. Also, if I was too post anything on there that was inappropriate my mom would call me so fast and then proceed to lecture me about how people can get in trouble for that. Then she would complain how my cousin uses vulgar language in a lot of her statuses and blah blah blah.... Yes, this has happened before.
In Share or Die I read a passage that was about stranger dinners. Basically, how these dinners work is you invite a bunch of random people who you have never met before over to your house for a dinner. All of the guests are required to bring a random item of food. So its like a pot luck. She talks about how there are various ways of inviting these strangers. She suggests that for your first stranger dinner you should ask your friends to invite their friends so those people have to go through your friends so you know they are not serial killers or something crazy like that. Another way she suggested was to use the internet to find strangers for your stranger dinner. Her suggested site was Craigslist...I don't know about you but this sounds kind of sketch to me..Whatever. To each is own I guess.
Its crazy to think how much we have advanced technology wise in the past century. From phones to social media to Youtube and Google. It's had to be bored now a days. Just don't forget to put down that phone every once and awhile and enjoy life.
I feel the same way. I communicate more through technology than verbally. And I have to agree with you on the Facebook remark, I always watch what a put on Facebook because you never know who may be watching. It may not only affect a future job opportunity, but it could also affect your physical health if someone tries to hurt you with the information you put on the site.
ReplyDeleteI think you have a good point when you say we need to unplug occasionally and have real, live interactions with people. I unplugged for an entire month this past summer and was amazing (once I got over the need to have a gadget in my hand all of the time). I had more time to spend with my family and devote to "me time" like reading or taking a walk. After a while, I didn't even miss my technology and actually found it difficult to get back into the habit of checking my streams every day. While I agree that social media can help us to connect with people we may never have met otherwise, it can also isolate us from the people who already share our lives.
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