We are living in a world where social media is in clear presence and dragging everyone out to some trend in a second without us noticing. Even the word de-friending was recently added into the dictionary which we have not heard of before the era of Facebook. So that makes me wondering are we really friends in real world as well as on Facebook and beyond. Majority of people just add friends without even thinking twice .Just because of the fact that they met them once and had a drink together do not necessarily link them to be a mutual friend forever. This reasoning makes me to look back and start counting how many real friends that I really know do I have on my social media. I do not think that many of us can say that they have real friends on their Facebook profile. We simply add without even thinking twice. That is why so many of us de-friend someone after when they realized that he or she is not a friend at all after few moment or seconds or even a week. This should not be the way how we friend someone. This also makes us to be a little bit naïve in a sense that we abandon things very easily without even reckoning. Friends and colleagues should the one you can rely on and take it seriously not frivolously. Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter and all those social media outlets are encouraging people to be frivolous and easy. This can be found when we are friending someone as well as de-friending someone as easily as it is just a click of a button to do so. This cultural phenomenon should have to be noticed by us so that we can teach the younger generation to take their matters seriously.We are living in a world where social media is in clear presence and dragging everyone out to some trend in a second without us noticing. Even the word de-friending was recently added into the dictionary which we have not heard of before the era of Facebook. So that makes me wondering are we really friends in real world as well as on Facebook and beyond. Majority of people just add friends without even thinking twice .Just because of the fact that they met them once and had a drink together do not necessarily link them to be a mutual friend forever. This reasoning makes me to look back and start counting how many real friends that I really know do I have on my social media. I do not think that many of us can say that they have real friends on their Facebook profile. We simply add without even thinking twice. That is why so many of us de-friend someone after when they realized that he or she is not a friend at all after few moment or seconds or even a week. This should not be the way how we friend someone. This also makes us to be a little bit naïve in a sense that we abandon things very easily without even reckoning. Friends and colleagues should the one you can rely on and take it seriously not frivolously. Unfortunately, Facebook and Twitter and all those social media outlets are encouraging people to be frivolous and easy. This can be found when we are friending someone as well as de-friending someone as easily as it is just a click of a button to do so. This cultural phenomenon should have to be noticed by us so that we can teach the younger generation to take their matters seriously.
A forum for Blog Community #7 of CSCL 1001 (Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desire; University of Minnesota, Fall 2011) -- and interested guests.
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Too many friends on Facebook?
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I agree that this should not be the way we friend others. People need to get out and go meet people and talk with them in person to really know who they are and if they want to call them a 'friend' or not.
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