I am going to admit my love for Facebook, because you know how I feel about Twitter. When I first started using it, it was a lazy posting of an event once a week or so. In the last 3 months I have ramped up to multiple postings a day.
Posted yesterday:
Ophelia Chong: Okay I am going to admit it. Facebook has gotten me closer to people who I wouldn't have been close to because of distance, time, age...if a website could have emotions, FB would be the closest to a group hug. MySpace is a poke in the eye (those visuals, ugh).
Some of the Comments:
Izabela Berengut: so true, so true...
Adam Larson: I had this exact conversation with a friend last night, who I only saw because of facebook. It's nuts!!! Right there with you.
Ernie Olson: Electronic summer camp...
Casey Harris: Myspace terrifies me. What started as this prototype networking system, quickly evolved into the complete embodiment of Tween nightmarishness. I don't want to listen to your emo bands or see your glittery animated backgrounds!
What I love about Facebook is the ease in following my cousin Ada's latest news, we barely seen each other throughout the years, she's in Puerto Rico, and I am here. I feel closer to her because we communicate at least once a week on Facebook.
Online Social Networks warp time and distance; time becomes inconsequential, distance is non-existent and participation is addictive. We move through the time lines of our friends and relatives, we are present while not being present. We are relegated to one of the five senses, Sight - we send silent messages to each other, the photo of the vacation, the dinner we just ate, the view from our window, and attached to each image a short haiku; "I sat here, and ate this".
I know more about my friends and family now than I would have with that phone call or snail mail. We are intrinsically tied to each other by an invisible thread, sewn into a worldwide quilt, each patch a story, each stitch a moment in time.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Call Me
Ophelia Chong: Okay I am going to admit it. Facebook has gotten me closer to people who I wouldn't have been close to because of distance, time, age...if a website could have emotions, FB would be the closest to a group hug. MySpace is a poke in the eye (those visuals, ugh).
Some of the Comments:
Izabela Berengut: so true, so true...
Adam Larson: I had this exact conversation with a friend last night, who I only saw because of facebook. It's nuts!!! Right there with you.
Ernie Olson: Electronic summer camp...
Casey Harris: Myspace terrifies me. What started as this prototype networking system, quickly evolved into the complete embodiment of Tween nightmarishness. I don't want to listen to your emo bands or see your glittery animated backgrounds!
What I love about Facebook is the ease in following my cousin Ada's latest news, we barely seen each other throughout the years, she's in Puerto Rico, and I am here. I feel closer to her because we communicate at least once a week on Facebook.
Online Social Networks warp time and distance; time becomes inconsequential, distance is non-existent and participation is addictive. We move through the time lines of our friends and relatives, we are present while not being present. We are relegated to one of the five senses, Sight - we send silent messages to each other, the photo of the vacation, the dinner we just ate, the view from our window, and attached to each image a short haiku; "I sat here, and ate this".
I know more about my friends and family now than I would have with that phone call or snail mail. We are intrinsically tied to each other by an invisible thread, sewn into a worldwide quilt, each patch a story, each stitch a moment in time.
Image: Ophelia Chong / Call Me
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Likewise, I LOVE reading your status updates and visiting your profile. The picture of you that I have in my mind gives me pleasure and strength. Thanks for sharing yourself with the rest of us mere mortals.
hey cousin Ada,
Oh you. I love your updates from the PR. :O) ophelia