Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Facebook the place to connect with??!! the world, like it or not.

Facebook May 23 2012 7:49 pm. I am scrolling down the list of status updates to find a conversation that is meaningful. First of all I do not believe the contents of some of the posts I have seen. It is like a list of mindless drible.
  1. "Dinner at my house" (with photo)
  2. "who loves Coors light i do" (with photo)
  3. "American idols finale is tonight! Phillip Phillips the next american idol..."
  4. ‎"47.000 lbs of watermelons and no SALT dam it man.."
  5. ...
So, looking, looking... here we go,WSU this is going to be my next school so I liked the WSU page but honestly this is the first time I have actually visited it.

Love the pic!


Well that is not going to work as it looks like there are no actual conversations on the Cougar page. It is just a bunch of ads and links, although they do look like helpful links for future viewing.




So, I guess we are stuck with the uneventful conversations as a topic piece.

There are always the drama queens who want to tell the facebook world how crappy life is. Why? What do you suppose they are reaching out for? Confirmation that life sucks elsewhere?! I think they need a hug.



Facebook has become the place to go to tell people we love how we are doing throughout our busy day; that is fine but, personally, I have over 200 friends I have never met. So, in retrospect when I tell my loved ones where I am going for vacation (which I do not do by the way) but if I did, I would also be telling 200 people and all there friends and family as well. Disturbing right!


I know, I know, Your privacy setting is protecting you from such things right?!!

Yeah, probably NOT! If that were true then there would probably be no way to say, I dont know, FIND PEOPLE YOU ARE SEARCHING FOR. 
Sorry, I got off on a tangent.


 I find it disturbing that some of the facebook posts I see are written by people I know, love and respect. (with pictures)lol. Do you wonder, as I do, What are they thinking? Excuse me this is not an anonymous post, right! Everyone knows it was "Jane Doe" including, but not limited to her boss, friends, husband, husbands friends, parents, OMG your parents, and pretty much anyone who cares to look at your wall today. Oh and that DELETE post option is great to get it out of your face but guess what; SURPRISE!!! It is still in everyone elses that I just mentioned.

YOUR FIRED This lady simply stated that her job was boring and now she is really bored, or maybe not since she is probably LOOKING FOR A JOB!!!


facebook message This young girl got a "message" from her boss telling her she was fired. REALLY! that is like someone breaking up with you via facebook. OH WAIT, there is an app for that breakup.  
Nice family oriented social network, isn't that what they called it in the begining? Wonder what we should call it now?

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 11:46 AM

    I'm a little confused as to what you where trying to communicate with the last few paragraphs. Facebook isn't private, yeah I got that but it seems a little like a rambling conversation without a purpose except to ramble. Maybe you could strengthen your argument with a way to avoid the unfortunate events these people have experienced. It would give alternatives to those reading your final paper.

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    1. AnonymousMay 28, 2012 at 5:21 AM

      my blog is the fact that facebook has become a list of random and mindless drible from posting what they had for dinner to telling the world how they feel about their life, job, kids and just about everything. The last part goes into the consequences of what one person may have thought was a harmless post that turnd into the loss of a job or the cop out of doing your job by firing someone via private message. Further still I show through links the far reaching consequences of putting your life on the open web; where it becomes news.

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    2. AnonymousMay 28, 2012 at 5:27 AM

      One more thing, it is a blog not a term paper and he said "Many of you treated your first post like a report, and that's okay...for your first post. From here on out, be more informal. Talk about your experiences in the first person tense and take a more relaxed tone." so that is what I tried to do.

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  2. AnonymousMay 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM

    I was a little confused as well. The post jumps from discussing what's being viewed to something totally different that doesn't fit together, other than it all connected to Facebook. That being said, I love the WSU vs CC photo. As for the lady who got fired via her post, it makes me wonder if she actually had her boss as one of her "friends" or if she doesn't have her setting so public can't read her postings. As long as she wasn't on Facebook at work, I don't know how they could legally fire her for saying her job was boring.

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