Blog Assignment – First Prompt

I started with social media when many of my old friends had pushed me to join Friendster. I had all of my friends there. Then they all went to Myspace and I followed but wasn’t as involved as I was with Friendster. Then everyone moved to Facebook. I followed suit but I think the whole hassle of re-friending all of my friends wasn’t really worth it. I did locate many old friends through Facebook and it was great to talk to them again. Yet, I found that we were all older and different so we either didn’t have time to actually hangout together but that we also really didn’t want to hangout together.

I mainly used Facebook to play the games–first it was Mafia Wars, then Scrabble, then this Ninja game, and then Poker. I spent so many hours on there that could’ve been more productively used. I made some posts but rarely. I liked posting Youtube videos and videos that I created but then Facebook got all police state and started taking everything down, which inevitably took away our individuality and expression through music (Myspace’s success). My photos that I posted were looked at by others but then Facebook changed its structure. It was hard to find my friends and photos, and my videos had all been taken down (I’m banned from uploading videos).

Though I still have a Facebook account, I rarely use it. Facebook messed with something that was great and didn’t fix it, just made it worse (like the way Yahoo bought delicious.com and ruined the entire site beyond recognition).

Published in: on February 8, 2012 at 6:38 pm
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7 Comments

  1. on February 8, 2012 at 9:35 pm Sadia Said:

    I enjoyed reading your post. I agree. Facebook is taking away too many rights we have to express ourselves. Now facebook is forcing everyone to change their layout to “timeline” which is making it more complicated and annoying to follow.

    I barely use facebook myself now. Its just another way to control people and I feel that we have to deal enough of that in our daily lives.

  2. on February 9, 2012 at 11:23 am mgershovich Said:

    Why did you find Facebook more appealing than MySpace or Friendster? Was it because your friends were moving over or was it something inherent to the services as well?

    I agree about delicious though I am giving it a chance now that the YouTube guys saved it from oblivion. I do miss the very simple, no-frills interface and functionality of the old del.icio.us

  3. on February 10, 2012 at 11:23 am ka051597 Said:

    I agree that trying to keep up with all of the new updates in Facebook takes away from the actual purpose. It makes you wonder if you’re better off keeping in touch and networking with people the old fashioned way. I closed my account last month and Im fine without it.

  4. on February 14, 2012 at 1:47 pm Bryant Said:

    There are times that I wish I had the appetite to consume more of the WWW’s offerings. Then again, I think I spend too much time on the internet when I am doing schoolwork, like papers or e-mail reading.

  5. on December 31, 2012 at 2:53 pm Gallardo - bonos poker Said:

    I know, it looks like Facebook got taken over by the CIA or something. Smart people recognize when something is wrong and I’m glad you barely use Facebook now.

  6. on January 1, 2013 at 11:42 pm Jane Said:

    Fb is getting better again, and you might want to get back and play mafia wars?

    http://www.facebook.com/MafiaWarsAccountsOnSale

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