Facebook: the best thing ever since slice bread?
I’d give you $10 if you could find any GC student who DOES NOT know about Facebook. You just talked to someone in the DC at lunch; when you check your email, you’re told that person has just added you as a friend. Even better, you came to a socializing activity, expect your mailbox to be stuffed with Facebook friend request. Those who don’t have Facebook receive wierd looks or comments. A friend of mine, at the beginning of last school year, was so determined that he’d stand against the Facebooking trend. By the end of the school year, he used Facebook to publicize events (aka parties throwing).
I myself have nothing against Facebook – it’s a pretty neat socializing tool. But when someone spends 4-5 hours everyday adding applications, creating groups and inviting people to miscellaneous (aka non-sense and ridiculous) things, I don’t think the socializing part is true anymore.
“Hey, have you read my message on Facebook?” I check Facebook like twice a month, so I don’t know what to response to my neighbor when he asks me that. And we are just one wall away from each other…
Anyway, the tool is as smart as the person who uses it. Facebook can actually turn out to be the best thing since slice bread… OK, maybe not, but you get the point.
“Facebook and other social networks in the workplace can suck up employees’ time and worse. But managed right, they may be the next breakthrough in business collaboration….”
