Response to a classmate
In response to a classmates post about "becoming social": http://meghanohare124blog.blogspot.com/2007/10/social-networking-specifically-my-sapce.html
"Once clicking on her site, I realized that her site was private and you could only view it if you were invited. This lead to old feelings of social bias and exclusion, things that I thought that I had passed over since leaving high school."
I totally agree with this statement! I think everyone back in high school felt excluded at some point. While we thought we were all matured and over those feelings, feeling rejected once again because we WERE NOT INVITED, can bring back some bad memories. Although, I'm sure a simple e-mail would fix this, and your old friend would invite you (but that'd seem stalker-esque, and that's not cool!)
"So you can find old classmates, that you weren’t very close to anyways otherwise you would have stayed in touch, and tell them about how great your life is and how many friends you now have."
This is also very true... People tend to look for old classmates who they were never really friends with to begin with; possibly in an attempt to feel more popular? I think these social networks should only be a device to keep in touch with "real" friends (real meaning people who actually care about what you have to say and think), rather than a popularity contest online. I thought this was done after I graduated? NOPE! :)
"I just think that MySpace is a waste of time and energy and is built around a mentality of one-up-manship, which I prefer not to take part in."
Yes! MySpace is pretty pointless, and it's built around the whole "friends" system... more specifically, "top friends"... You'd think that people would seem really fake towards others just to get on the top of their friends list. Kinda pathetic....
"Once clicking on her site, I realized that her site was private and you could only view it if you were invited. This lead to old feelings of social bias and exclusion, things that I thought that I had passed over since leaving high school."
I totally agree with this statement! I think everyone back in high school felt excluded at some point. While we thought we were all matured and over those feelings, feeling rejected once again because we WERE NOT INVITED, can bring back some bad memories. Although, I'm sure a simple e-mail would fix this, and your old friend would invite you (but that'd seem stalker-esque, and that's not cool!)
"So you can find old classmates, that you weren’t very close to anyways otherwise you would have stayed in touch, and tell them about how great your life is and how many friends you now have."
This is also very true... People tend to look for old classmates who they were never really friends with to begin with; possibly in an attempt to feel more popular? I think these social networks should only be a device to keep in touch with "real" friends (real meaning people who actually care about what you have to say and think), rather than a popularity contest online. I thought this was done after I graduated? NOPE! :)
"I just think that MySpace is a waste of time and energy and is built around a mentality of one-up-manship, which I prefer not to take part in."
Yes! MySpace is pretty pointless, and it's built around the whole "friends" system... more specifically, "top friends"... You'd think that people would seem really fake towards others just to get on the top of their friends list. Kinda pathetic....
posted by Ryan Schmidt at 10:28 AM
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