Thread: Social networking....your thoughts

All

As we know, the likes of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo etc have revolutionised the way in which we communicate with friends, family etc

Some people believe that due to social networking, there is no face-to-face interaction anymore. What are your thoughts?

Have social networking sites helped you get work?

Have social networking sites allowed you to catch up with lost friends?

or

Are social networking sites becoming a problem for you?

Do you get frustrated with the lack of personal conversation?

Please feel free to discuss.

Deb

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Underneath the layers of media filth there is the good idea that brought them to the net.

Bringing people together and keeping in touch. Also to allow small businesses/artists to show their talent off.

Everything eventually gets taken advantage of, especially on the internet ha. It's just the way things go.

It's up to people to not bombard their friends with spam from pointless games and to not start flame wars. After all you can't really blame the social networking site for the annoyances the people using them cause

Not sure if they have ruined the art of conversation. I am a major introvert :P

x

I like them, they are an easy way to keep in touch with friends and find out about parties that are happening. I also get maybe 70% or more of my work from people contacting me through social sites.

from a burlesque voyeurs point of view, its really handy. i've been (uneasily and shyly) adding a lot of performers lately; while this makes me feel and look like a complete stalker, it really is a good way for me to keep on top of local events that are happening soon. plus of course every time i add someone or comment on their page, my friends see it, meaning the performer/event in question gets some free advertising, which can only be a good thing. also i can just direct my friends to the page and see if they fancy coming along.

although i did get a message from a friend the other day that was like "i keep getting friend suggestions come up of people with very strange names, and they all seem to know you. why is this?"

Originally Posted by TipTop Photography

All

Have social networking sites allowed you to catch up with lost friends?

or

Are social networking sites becoming a problem for you?

Do you get frustrated with the lack of personal conversation?


Deb

Both of these are true for me. I loved the likes of facebook when I first discovered them because within a few weeks I was back in contact with people that I hadn't seen for years. But on the other hand people really do think that once you are friends with them on these sites that they don't need to bother with the phone anymore- I very nearly missed out on congratulating a family member for the birth of his first child. When I asked how come he hadn't called I got "I put it on facebook!" WTF!

I love Facebook just for the fact i can keep in contact with friends who are far away at Uni. It also keeps me updated when they arehome, if parties are happening etc.
Cause I'm on it quite regularly, if i run out of phone credit i just tell people if they need to talk to me, (text wise) to leave the message on FB where i can reply.

I just hate the fact that i have my Ex added on it and i keep being shown his new girlfriends etc which hurts (as he keeps texting me that he loves me :/) but if i delete him, I fear the conversation "Why did you delete me off facebook? I hate you!" My most recent Ex, although we JUST broke up can see everything i am doing. Cause i dont have sad status's he thinks I don't feel bad about the break up...it makes awkward situations last a little bit longer than they would normally.

yeah it definitely has its negative sides.... sometimes i cant help but look at everyone i went to school with and feel jealous, of what theyre up to now. of course people only tend to put all the fabulous things theyre up to and not things like "got up. went to work. came home. made tea. went to bed. cried." its all "going out tonight for a raaaaaaaaave, going out to get hammerrrrrrred, i love liiiiiiiiiife!" ...swines. i'm not bitter or anything. *cough*

I've never felt that social networking has stunted face-to-face contact, for me. I generally use facebook to arrange meet ups with my friends or to chat to uni friends who are endlessly in lectures or at librarys. When all my friends are at home I rarely go online.
At the same time, though, I've never used it to resume contact with an old friend, I'll use facebook or Twitter to see what they're up to, but never for communication.
On the whole I think social networking is a brilliant invention, very helpful, endlessly fun but not a necessity to my social life. I'd get along fine without! Lol
oh, redridinghood and pearl reckless, I know what you mean about exboyfriends and old friends who are too glamorous!!!! Or pretend to be glamorous, rather. I recently fell out with an abusive friend who smothered her facebook with comments about "my life is amazing!! I'm feeling the love! All night party, I'm drunk" and then annotate everything on my facebook and ask my friends why I'm deliberately trying to upset her on fb.
Crazy much!?

People take it waaay to literally. Example, i began going out with my new ex and didnt put it on facebook as i have my brother and dad added. Seeing as my dad is a bit...ish BNP (grr!)and my ex was black...i needed to soften the blow so to speak with him (When he found out finally he wasnt bothered at all, but i still worried!) so i didnt change my status on facebook, 'cause i didnt my friends didnt believe that i had a boyfriend and that me and him were friends with benefits as it hadnt been put on my facebook page :/ Which made me laugh!

Hahaha that's ridiculous, as if facebook determines your relationship!
My ex-friend met this new girl on the Internet and they had this huge 200 comment conversation on her wall about her "ex boyfriend" who had an affair and about all this sexual deviance she had gotten up to.. Only she's never had a boyfriend in her life and she's a virgin! So we all 'like'd her convo and she deleted us off facebook.
I don't think it's social networking that's the problem, rather the people who use it! Lol