Not being able to get on Facebook for a whole week. Now that is a mission nowadays with everyone constantly checking up on some social network. Facebook is a majority used website for the purpose to help flourish ones own social network. So I took this assignment to not look at all or even over a friends shoulder. There were a couple of moments where I was compromised that I had to turn my back because a friend of mine was using my labtop then goes"I'm done", and I don't turn around since I knew they kept it up to trick me. Surprisingly I ended up "cheating" because people just kept telling me what they did online before I could stop them, but that was during the weekend now its nothing. It was like I physically became my newsfeed on Facebook where everyone updated to me in person. I started to think what is the purpose of Facebook? Is it more of wanting the ability to pause our connections with people until we have time for them?Lets focus on the Facebook chat where you see whoever is online you can chat with. Which can be at any random time of the day or year. Like getting a random "hey whats up?" message from some guy you haven't seen in over a year, and never even really knew him in person. Yet you respond back then get into menial talk of each others life which lasts five minutes. So how is this branching out ones social network? I mean that is the point of Facebook where they create this chat system so you be instantly talking with them, but does anyone really ever chat more outside of their circle of friends? What is the point of adding people when you know that you won't really talk to them again so they become like friendly strangers to you. Its better than adding random people through friends request who most likely stay as a random number in ones friends list.
This creates a circle system where you add the person, either do instant "how you doing?", then it dies off , and random pop ups of checking up on each other through the year. This system doesn't really help people because no one really bothers to get closer than guarded walls, or network for events unless your closer with the person in real life rather than Internet talk. Facebook chat just reinforces how one doesn't bother to further the network by doing random "hi hows it going" check up on a person rather than "Would you be interested in this event?". This just builds a virtual world where people can feel they are socializing, and not having to do much work for it. So the point of just Facebook is doing a lazy social networking so that we give certain time to it, but focus most of our time on things that we find more important. Creating the system of holds on people that we can stay connected with them, but at the same time play on with other things in life.
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