This post is not about "the social network". Well, yes it kinda is, but not the movie! I want to talk about the real platform. Some of you - I'm guessing the real Geeks - have already heard of that new phenomenon, that is conquering the web and which is collecting our data.I love facebook! How could you not? It's one of the best ways to waste time, learn things about your friends, you never wanted to know and its also the easiest way to stalk all the hot girls, who otherwise never would look at you!
It's like a huge achieve of your life and sometimes, you look at a status from a year ago and think: "Man... I wish I was still this dumb." Instead of writing a diary today, the 14 year old girls post a status describing their pains and troubles to the world - only difference is that everybody reads it. Instead of having a book, where you let your friends write in you have your facebook wall and instead of a fotoalbum you have... Well you still have fotoalbums, but most of the pictures are blurry and show premature teenagers with pushup-bras.
It's hard to grasp the cultural impact of "the social network", but it's save to say that it makes things easier, yet more difficult. For example, it's easy to check the relationship-status of the girls you like, however it's rather hard to make them not notice, that you date all 4 of them at the same time (why didn't Facebook add relationships with multiple people?!).
Seriously though, all the advantages Facebook can back fire on you. What if you have a job-interview and your new boss checks your Facebook first to see what you are like? Will he find the pictures of you, being drunk and worst?
So now my personal opinion - partly joking, partly serious. It's great to be finally able to make ones life public, find friends you thought you had lost, loose friends you thought you had, meet new people, who only added you, because they think your profile picture is hot and last but not last be able to "like" somebody's activity (sometimes, when somebody says something great in real life, I'm like "WHERE IS THE FREAKING LIKE-BUTTON, WHEN YOU NEED IT?!").
Facebook changes lives, and you better make sure it changes your life for the better!
It's hard to grasp the cultural impact of "the social network", but it's save to say that it makes things easier, yet more difficult. For example, it's easy to check the relationship-status of the girls you like, however it's rather hard to make them not notice, that you date all 4 of them at the same time (why didn't Facebook add relationships with multiple people?!).Seriously though, all the advantages Facebook can back fire on you. What if you have a job-interview and your new boss checks your Facebook first to see what you are like? Will he find the pictures of you, being drunk and worst?
So now my personal opinion - partly joking, partly serious. It's great to be finally able to make ones life public, find friends you thought you had lost, loose friends you thought you had, meet new people, who only added you, because they think your profile picture is hot and last but not last be able to "like" somebody's activity (sometimes, when somebody says something great in real life, I'm like "WHERE IS THE FREAKING LIKE-BUTTON, WHEN YOU NEED IT?!").
Then keep your Facebook clean from bad stuff.
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