As I was going from blog to blog a suspicion of mine was confirmed. Everyone likes to facebook. I personally have a thing against social networking and here’s why. I fail to see the need to be in constant contact with my friends. I mean, I like them, and I like being around them, but I don’t need to catch up with them every hour on the hour. And then there’s the fact that most of peoples ‘friends’ on social networking site, are more acquaintances that they really have no interest in. I had a myspace a couple of years ago and I thought I would be different. I would only accept friend requests from people that I was actually friends with. However this changed when I actually got those friend requests, because I couldn’t hurt their feelings by not accepting. That’s when I realized that there was a special code of conduct with social networking and I didn’t want to follow it. I didn’t want to have 300 friends that I had never really met. I didn’t want to comment about everyone’s pictures all the time. And those LOL, IDK things, yeah hate those. Therefore I do not have a facebook and I do not plan on getting one.
There is one aspect of social networking that I simply don’t get. I don’t have anything against it, I just don’t get it. Maybe someone can explain it to me. Why do people take tons of pictures of only themselves and put them up. When I take a picture it is because I’m seeing something or experiencing something that I may never see r experience again and I want to remember it. I know what I look like. I don’t think I’m going to forget that when I look in a mirror every day. So why take pictures of yourself?
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People's photo habits are funny, aren't they? Mine is that I seldom take pictures of just landscapes. I figure, if I want to see a picture of some site such as Statue of Liberty, I could find that online. Instead I try to always have people in my photos because I expect years from now it is the people I will most want to see and remember.
ReplyDeleteI also do not feel the need to be in constant contact with my friends, but I do Facebook. It's like a way of keeping in contact with my friends without actually keeping in contact with them. I may not have to the time to call or email them as often as I'd like, but I can still get a sense of what's going on with them through their status updates. However, it does kind of cultivate this sort of creepy voyeuristic culture where people (even ones you don't know) know what's going on in your life by looking through your profile and status updates. I have actually had friends before describe people that they only knew on the basis of scouring their Facebook profiles.
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't know what's up with the picture thing! I like looking at group photos, but when you post a bunch of pictures you've obviously taken of yourself, I think you kind of come across as a little self-absorbed.