Facebook

I definitely agree with many ideas of Tom Hodgkinson’s that were in “With Friends Like These…” I most definitely agree with the idea that we don’t need to have a computer or the internet to connect us to people. Facebook makes it easier for us to find people and keep in touch with many people. It just makes the users of Facebook lazier. We don’t use the phone anymore or even write emails, we only seem to use Facebook to send messages to our friends. I know from my own experience of Facebook that I may have many friends on the site but it doesn’t actually mean that I keep in touch with all of them everyday or even every week. Most people I know use Facebook for just looking at photos and happen to over use it. Facebook is now just another place where you are bombarded with advertisements. Wherever you go, you can’t avoid advertisements by small or large companies.

Another concept of Hodgkinson’s that I found interesting, was the fact that Facebook is hard to escape. When Facebook first started, was only available for only college students, then high school students, and now its available for anyone. My mom and my aunt are users of Facebook now, it’s crazy. I know for like people like my mom, she has been able to find old friends from college and even high school. Without this technology she would have probably never found them, but there has been too much focus on this one site.

The youtube video is very humorous and very true. We all have been guilty of just friending someone because you saw them on campus or saw their site. Why would you poke someone!? I really don’t get it and the movie portrays that. I really don’t think anyone gets why there is a poke button. I definitely agree with their video. They leave there video vague of Facebook and what goes on Facebook.

My own Facebook experience happens to be similar to the other birthday experience. I know that on my birthday, I haven’t actually received many calls since I have had Facebook. I always get messages on my Facebook wall rather than an actual call. It just shows how we function in our society. We are all so connected to the net and this particular site.