10/30/2008

Myspace what?


I became a member of Facebook before pretty much any of my close friends were part of it. Myspace was all the rage when I became a Facebook member. So, if almost none of my friends were on Facebook, why switch when this is a social network? Something deep within my womanly intuition made me believe that this would someday be a big deal (yes, my womanly intuition). And who was right? Yes, I was.

Like many people, I use Facebook to keep in touch with people whom I have left behind from my hometown to go to college. I have also been able to keep in touch with relatives or other friends that I lost contact with over the years. I am not much of one to meet random people online. Like I said, I'm more for the "keep in touch" part of it. When you browse around and see who people that you know are connected with, you begin to realize that the world can be sized down by a simple website. People from all across the globe will know the site Facebook and people that you know will be connected to people on the other side of the world. I think it is a way to build a small community out of a huge planet.

Perhaps the fact that I'm a college student has to do with my opinion on this subject. I don't know what my use of Facebook would have been like in high school since all my friends were around me everyday.

I will be using Facebook for as long as it lasts so I can keep the connections with people throughout my life. If a new social network site comes along which everyone switches to, I will probably be one of the mass users, I like being connected.

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