Sunday, August 16, 2009

Epic Fail (and Part Win) of Social Networking

Social networking is a thing nowadays. It can be a way to keep in touch with friends and family no matter how far apart they are. It’s so much of a fad, that whenever someone's online, he or she would be logged on to at least one social networking site.

But as an annoying factor, most of the people that they add have no solid connection with one another. No personal relation or common friends whatsoever. The person they add would just act like a number in their friends list and that’s practically it. They wouldn’t do shit afterwards. Why do they want to have THAT many friends? Then there are those people that would have 2 or 3 accounts registered in a single site. Honestly, who the fuck needs that many accounts?! This ain’t a competition, pal. You don’t need to have 193,499 friends each on 6 Friendster accounts. Jesus of Suburbia…

Then there are people who would try to become popular by posing as a celebrity or some shit. They would go all the way by stealing identities, posting photos that are not really theirs, and the whole enchilada.

Then the sites would fuck things up more with, to how HappySlip would call it, “Full-on Stalker Mode.” A nasty little feature set on default that displays you and your friends’ every move whenever they’re online there. Imagine a whole list of things filling up the page like, “Shannon and Drake are now friends,” “Dwayne tagged Kobe in a photo,” “Kobe commented on a photo of him,” “Grace wrote on your wall,” and “Grace likes your status.”

Fucked up as it may be, it is also a plus to be in a social network.

Social networking is really a way to keep in touch with friends and family far away. I’m able to talk about the happenings here to my uncle living in Florida; I can post pictures and tag my friends that are in them, and then wait for their violent reactions; I can post my thoughts, and let them have a say about it. Practically anything that is possible, I can and will do.

Just try to socialize with caution; you’ll never know when some guy not so far away is stalking you.

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