Class Blog - English 3, Section 19

ltchhan:

Remember when it was all about Myspace?  Everyone knows at least one person who had ten bajillion friends, none of whom they actually knew of course.  Then, a few years later, the Facebook craze took over.  Facebook was better than Myspace because of course because it was for more “mature” users, such as college students.  Facebook has now dominated Myspace (…sorry Tom) and has left it trailing behind.

Well according to an article from TIME, Facebook is more useful for our parents than for ourselves.  The article has ten reasons why Facebook is for the middle-aged.  When I first read the title of the article, I thought it would be interesting to see what TIME came up with.  To my surprise, the top ten reasons are pretty legit and are as follows:

1) Facebook is about finding people you’ve lost track of

2) They are no longer bitter about high school

3) They never get drunk at parties and get photographed holding beer bottles in suggestive positions

4) Facebook isn’t just a social network; it’s a business network

5) They’re lazy

6) They’re old enough that pictures from grade school or summer camp look nothing like them

7) They have children

8) They’re too old to remember e-mail addresses

9) They don’t understand twitter

10) They’re not cool and they don’t care

From this compilation of reasons, I must say that I agree that Facebook is more for the older population than the young.  You’ve got to admit that most of the time spent on Facebook should be time spent on something else, like studying for that final coming up… just a thought. :]

I also really like the reason about getting photographed drunk at parties and about Facebook being a business network.  College students party; not all of us, but it’s a known fact that we do.  Having such inappropriate pictures up on Facebook is really risky if you’re looking for a job.  Even being tagged in a picture is risky.  Such behavior is unprofessional and your employer will be more than happy to look elsewhere for someone to hire.

Also, I really like the tenth reason.  At the college age, we shouldn’t care about being “cool,” but that immature part of us still runs through our system, unfortunately.  After thinking about the reasons presented in this article, deleting my Facebook account sounds like a good idea.  I probably won’t do it, but I have more reasons to delete it than to keep it.