the hot topic for this week's class is SOCIAL NETWORKING. i shall focus and give my insights on FACEBOOK as it is the most popular social networking website currently! (friendster totally died and is trying very hard to leech onto everyone of us)
facebook is very important in everyone's life now. i would say that it is targeted at tertiary students and above. the many features helped bridge many gaps that other social networks are not able to fill. some of the brilliant features are as follows:
1) news feed
-latest updates of photos posted, relationship status, videos, comments etc.
2) photo albums
-we can choose to upload individual photos or upload albums according to events.
3) wall
-friends can write on ur wall and ur recent updates will be shown on the wall as well.
4) superpoke
-though i think this is quite a purposeless (aka lame) application, it is still entertaining to poke anyone and everyone.
5) events invitation
-u can set up a page for any upcoming events and send invites to all ur friends! (i had a friend who used facebook to send out wedding invites! talking bout convenience huh!)
many people have come to realise the importance of facebook. and many creative individuals went the extra mile to show how silly it would be to perform facebook features in reality. here's an interesting experiment done in the big apple, new york.
as educated people, we should not be naive. it is therefore important to know the risks that the usage of facebook brings. whatever we post on our profile, it is definitely at our own risk. the friends that u've added will have access to ur info, details, photos etc. the photos can be easily saved and used for other purposes. also, facebook has the right over whatever we post. almost 100% of us dont read the 'terms and agreements' and blindly click on 'i agree'. no doubt this saves us about 15 mins of our life, this one click is the reason why facebook is so powerful. this video below will explain to u exactly why.
once again, we come to the end of jody's insights! hope it has been an enjoyable read and feel free to leave ur comments so i can improve for the better! much thanks!
signing out,
jody doo
Wah,facebook...yesterday I jst found out the danger of chinese version facebook!!...sigh...
ReplyDeleteNice writing,I wonder when my writing can catch up with native speakers....
btw,what's ur major?
xinyu
I have seen a chinese friend of mine using the chinese version of their own facebook. You won't believe the technology of their facebook. It is amazing. I think some of the features can easily match or beat Facebook. No kidding. This is coming from an IT guy
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