Hmm... would you say that blogging on a blog that is not read by anyone except occasionally the blogger's dad and one or two of the blogger's friends would make that blogger a social network geek? I dunno... Of course there is Face book, the big, ginormous, network over the Internet, where anyone can talk to anyone, leaving pictures, things about themselves, and a ton of other stuff, (we all know it's quite popular, in fact, I don't think I know anyone 25 years old or younger who either don't have a account on there, or want one but can't have one, with the exception of two or three people).
Here's the story that's making me want to write a post:
A couple days ago, my brother got a FB (Face book) account. He has wanted one for a little while, and he needs it because one of his classes mainly use FB to contact each other. Today I have been watching him show me how it works and so on, and I have come to the conclusion that FB is actually in short, a white-and-blue page on your computer screen that sets you up to have a completely open conversation with anyone else (besides the games and tournaments of games you can play with other people). Now, I don't see anything wrong with doing that, I mean, aren't most of your normal, every-day conversations with people around you out where other people can listen? The only thing strange about the FB set-up is that there is the big question of: WOULDN'T YOU RATHER HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE IN PERSON???
Of course, you can always have the excuse of saying that you set up an account to communicate with someone who lives far away and you can't see them in person as often as you like. But then, there are of course, these things called phones, telephone is actually the correct term. Some people even have things called cell phones, and the correct term for those is cellular telephone. There is even this thing that is very close to FB, called E-Mail.
Now none of these things are the same concept, and all were invented for different uses, but if the only way you communicate with people is by saying: (and I feel really dorky actually typing this)
Person #1: "Y did the chken cross the rd? to gt to the othr side ;D"
Person #2: " :D LOL thts so funny, Haha! ROFL, thx 4 tellin me tht awsome jk!"
TELL ME PLEASE! IS THIS WHAT YOU SIT AROUND AND DO ALL DAY?
And don't get me wrong, communication is great, but maybe the American way of acting like we don't have a moment to spare by typing without vowels, then spending half of our free-time typing silly, pointless messages to people who we see at least twice a week isn't so great.
One other thing I'd like to put in is this: ...uhh hold on, what was I gonna say?...
Oh yeah! I remember!
I think that a characteristic of humans, especially in this century, and in this generation, is to want to, well, be like everyone else. For example, I know a person who goes to a not-so-great school. One day, she told me that because some kids in her school made fun of her not having a FB account, she made one for herself, got in trouble because she didn't get her dad's permission first, and had her computer taken away. The irony of that example is that this girl's dad was about to set her up with one anyway!
Do you see the point I'm getting at??
I'll estimate that one in every at least 10 people who have FB accounts got them because their friends and people they know use mainly FB all the time to talk to other people. So as a result, to get a hold of a FB junkie, you have to be one yourself!
I do realize that there are good things about FB too! And I also think that the whole 'Chat' thing is really pretty cool, though most conversations are pretty pointless. But if you have a really good friend that you don't have enought time to chatch up with, I think I would definatly use the 'Chat' thingy. I could very easily be tempted to want an account. That may be why I'm typing this now. In a few years,(hopefully not less) I can read this post, and maybe it will keep me from wanting a FB account so badly. I don't really want one now, because I see how it can be quite a hazard because of the fact that you can waste too much time being addictied to it. But I don't really doubt that in a few years, I will want one.
I have another story about a time when I went to a friend's birthday party. It was a lot of fun and all that but something that I didn't like was for maybe an hour, a group of the people who were invited (I'm glad to say not me), used the friend's computer to check their FB accounts! I was a little suprised because normaly when you're at a party with a lot of people, you don't automaticly get on the host's laptop (or desktop) and check on what your other friends are saying, or to play games.
I must admit one thing. I am addicted to certain social network internet computer games, such as, well, such as Club Penguin (an internet game where players have penguin charecters that they play as). And now I will regret ever typing that because I am slightly annoyed with myself for ever starting to play that game in the first place a loooong time ago.
And now I will get to the issue of Blogging. A Blog is defiantly a social network wanna-be, you share your thoughts, your favorite things, etc. BUT, you can set it so that it's not very personnaly infromitive. My blog, which you are reading right now, is very, very, boxed-up. In other words, it is really really hard to get to. You have to type in a ton of stuff to find it because it's not directly linked to THE WORLD WIDE WEB (cymbals). That is most likely the reason that I don't get any comments from anyone exept my dad. But for now, that's okay with me, though, I wouldn't mind if some of my friends, like my old blogging buddies Dbug and THC, checked out my blog once in a while... but of course, they've been sucked into the swirling vortex of Face Book world.
Now this post is really pretty long, so if you've gotten this far you have done VERY well! I congradulate you! and I will sign off by saying these nine words:
For now, my blog is good enough for me!
-A.lover
