In Kate Dailey's Newsweek article "Friends with Benefits: Do Facebook Friends Provide the Same Support as Those in Real Life?", she explains to us that many people use Facebook as their way of communication. She believes it is a very fast way to communicate with others. Many people share their personal information. Some do it to let others know what is going on in their lives and some do it to get advice on certain issues. She believes it's less painful than to make a phone call. Especially if it is somethin bad, posting it on Facebook lets everyone know in an easier way. She also beleives that is helpful to use Facebook for people that tend to be shy. They then can expres how they feel without having to directly talk to someone. She also believes people confuse the social life with real life. Everyone lives on Facebook, rather than actually seeing eachother.
Like Kate says, "Facebook works best as an amplication of a "real life" social life, not a replacement."We need to learn that it isn't just about being able to have it so easy. And remember, some people do not even use Facebook, or they hardly ever check it. It is beneficiary for most of us. We can live in the moment of our friends and family by seeing pictures or posts of things we may have missed. But we should not so much rely on it. We need to remember, we have lives, we need to live them!
I think your are right some people don't always use facebook, which I think is good because they should see people face to face and know that their friends, and family are okay. But facebook is just something where people gossip, and like to see other peoples pictures. knowing that things like this happens it is funny to know because they have all the time to be on there sometimes for hours.
ReplyDeleteI agree what you said that not all of us use facebook and some people wether talk to their friends in person of give them a call to see how things are. By doing this so he or she doesn't have to sit by the computer to wait for the message to come through and it this could wait a lot of time. If people are talking face to face or even on the phone this would save them a lot of time.
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