Yesterday I
was playing soccer with a group of my friends at North Central College.
Although, I knew most of the people there were several ones I’ve met for the
first time and so did many others in our group. We had a great time playing and
all of us went to have a dinner together after the game. In a little while as everyone
sat around a long table, ate and chatted all of us started to add each other to
our Facebook friend’s lists. As everyone was handing their phone to the once
they met for the first time book It’s
Complicated by Dana Boyd immediately came up in my head. The author brought
the idea of teenagers desperately wanting to be connected to likeminded people
and stay social/public by using social networking. Indeed, we all decided to
friend each other on Facebook and create our own group so that we can all
communicate about the next time we going to play soccer together. I think using social networks to connect with
people in order to meet with them in real life is actually very valuable and
convenient. It all took us no longer than ten minutes to create a social
network connection via Facebook and it hopefully will lead to many more hours
of fun playing soccer outside in the near future. People also posted pictures
that were taken on the soccer field right there at the table which gave a good
source of conversations and jokes among our group. I was really pleased to see
Facebook being used for a good cause, although I know sometimes it’s a big
distraction and source of many problems for students. I think as long as you
don’t abuse use of Facebook and don’t take it too seriously Facebook won’t hurt
anyone. Meaning that if you strictly use social networks for the purpose of
communicating with people that otherwise it would be hard to communicate with
in order to actually stay in touch and make a plan for meeting in real life,
then social networks will only help you to manage your time, activities and
connections to other people not hurting your social life outside of the
web.
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