Monday, February 18, 2008
Facebook- My Guilty Pleasure
This will probably come as no shock to most of you reading this because you are probably one of the millions that are the same way. My most frequently visited website is the infamous Facebook. It is mine and a lot of other individual’s “guilty pleasure.” Every time I sit down at a computer it is more than likely the first website I visit. I feel connected with the people around me especially my friends at college that I know are checking it as frequently as I am. Facebook started off as a strictly college site to keep friends connected that go to different colleges around the nation. With sites like MySpace popularizing because anyone can join Facebook had to make some changes. I preferred Facebook when it was strictly college students because it was exclusive and I felt connected with people that shared something in common with me. Regardless of these changes I still enjoy being able to communicate with people via Facebook. The advertising on Facebook, found on the left hand site of the screen, changes with every click I make. It ranges from housing to beauty products but it is aimed at a younger, teenage demographic which comes of no surprise because of the age range of Facebook being about 17-23. I have not really fallen into the advertisement on Facebook because most of the time I am more interested in what is going on with mine or other’s profiles and not looking at the side, but that is just me. In conclusion, Add me as your friend on Facebook!
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I even deleted my Facebook account once out of shame. Since then, I've come to realize it not as just a trendy site, but also a medium through which to reconnect with long-lost friends and meet potential ones. Even though I'm far from obsessed with the site (and especially its applications), I think now that there is little reason for the shame that I once had, as long as its not an escapist tendency.
I don't like facebook much anymore. I joined it to keep in contact with my classmates by signing up for a specific class at a specific time and with a specific teacher. That function is now no longer available. I just see it as another social site now. It's educational use has gone down the toilet. Now unless you know the person's full name, or a mutual friend, your kind of out of luck.
Something that's been annoying me lately (which isn't to say I don't use them), and I'm sore countless other people are the insane amount of new applications you can put on your profile. I was one of the people who signed up for Facebook the summer after high school (once I knew what college I was going to) and before the huge influx of high school students were permitted to join, so it was mainly a way for me to stay connected with people I had known from high school. It's sprouted into something wholly different now, but I still prefer it to MySpace, mainly because I don't believe there are as many pervs and weirdos on Facebook. But who knows, now that anyone can use it...I guess that's why I just won't accept anyone's friendship unless I know them in person.
I also don't really pay attention to the advertisements on Facebook, they just don't capture my attention. However, advertisements on myspace are much more affective in my opinion. Not saying they always work, but on the main myspace page, they'll occasionally have an entire page ad. Currently, it's for a movie I want to see (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and it's hard to avoid an ad when it takes up the whole page!
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