http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVA047JAQsk
This video is a list of 25 things that are commonly known to bother people about facebook. Julian Smith (the creator of the video) describes these flaws in his video. For example, he discusses why we "poke" people -- "poking" somebody on facebook has no significance and does not mean anything other than you were bored. Facebook, as mentioned in the video, has become an escape from doing your homework, going out, learning, spending time with family, or making friends. But wait - you can accept "Friend Requests" from random people that your cousin knows, or that your camp friend goes to school with. Once you accept this friendship, you now have given that stranger complete access to your life on the internet (which is usually similar to your "real" life). Facebook is not only an invasion of privacy, but is extremely impersonal. Any message you have for somebody you can write on their "wall", allowing the world to know what you had to tell them. As mentioned in the video, whenever it is somebody's birthday, you write the same message over and over "happy birthday!" (unless they are a close friend - then it is important that you leave TWO wall posts - that really shows how close you are). Facebook has altered the way we make friends and interact face to face. We are reliant on our technology to do our friendship-making for us; whether we check someone out through their "likes", their "photos", or their "Favorites." Either way, we are not asking the person one-on-one their opinions - it is assumed that you already know their opinions.
Facebook has changed our society, making it extremely impersonal and unrealistic, as discussed in 25 Things I hate About Facebook.
-Emily Shapiro
ReplyDeleteThis very comical and yet provocative video is exactly what describes Facebook. A series of annoyances that people put up with to get possibly a few moments of decent talking time with an actual friend. All of these annoyances (the random chats, the comparing of friends, and the constant notifications from "happy birthday"'s that are from random people) are things created by Facebook in order to keep one on the site as long as possible. It is our human nature that has morphed these simple applications into mind-numbing ideas. This is a classic example of us being a society being used by technology rather than us using technology. Despite all the annoying and aggravating additions to Facebook, its membership grows almost every day and now has over 500 million users. The essential stupidity of Facebook is what is being referenced here but it is startling how many people still join despite all the negative aspects. The "likes" and "Favorites" are purely meant to signify opinions as was stated in your analysis. People are being "abused" by Facebook in so many ways but it is important to realize that there is someone on the other end clicking the button to chat with you, not Facebook itself.
ReplyDeleteThis video of 25 things to hate about Facebook exposes the little, or perhaps not so little things that annoy us all. I completely agree with the complaint made of endless notifications of "happy birthday" posts, which many of are from people we barely even talk to in our daily lives. One of my favorite parts of the video was the questioning what is the purpose of the gifts we send and receive on Facebook? What good will a virtual birthday cake do? What house can you decorate with virtual balloons? The whole concept of virtual gifts is really quite pointless. The concept of relationships being deemed "Facebook official" was mentioned in the video and has entered our vocabulary to mean out in the open, or real, making those relationships that are not "Facebook official" somewhat secret.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with the statement you wrote how "we are reliant on our technology to do our friendship-making for us". It just proves how as a generation we are getting excruciatingly lazy. Even making friends, a natural, beneficial custom, has become too difficult so we leave it up to technology. The video is not only extremely humorous but it's a satirical view into our world and our rapidly changing society. It's evident that as time goes on things will alter into being even more convenient for us. We might lose the desire for computer/facebook technology because maybe some point in the future we find even the simple task of clicking a button too troublesome. Who knows? I guess all we can do is just wait to find out what the future holds in our technological society.
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SO FUNNY!!!
ReplyDeleteI really liked this entire video. My favorite part was the end when the two guys are talking and you see the Facebook IM icons on top of their heads. Also, the fact that they were talking about other people having a relationship and that one of them said "it's not facebook official". I know that I see on my mini-feed all these relationship changes posts. Blah blah blah is no longer in a relationship with blah blah blah and I find it so funny that this is how people are linked to eachother--through hyperlinks. It's gross. Facebook is supposed to be a social network yet it yields the most unsocial people.
All the things that Julian Smith hates about Facebook are things that I too hate about Facebook. One of the things he mentioned was the ridiculous concept of "poking" another person. Nothing happens when you get poked by someone except that it comes up "you've been poked by so-and-so." It has no other impact on your life. In addition, I liked what he said about groups. Most of the groups are just quotes from movies. What is the point of these. It just doesn't make sense. But the fact is, that this has become a form of communication, replacing talking in person. It really is not a good substitution. Things are becoming less pesonal which is really a problem.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple things here that simply don't make sense. First off poking is annoying, but everyone you talk to will agree on that; but his simulation of facebook chat doesn't do it justice. The way people interact online is different than the way people interact in person, in the same way that you interact differently with friends in a class than you do at lunch. THere are different ways to go about interacting and they do vary from scenario to scenario. Taking facebook out of context it does seem like an annoying concept, however when you consider that there is simply an etiquette for facebook interactions that is different for face to face interactions, the concepts don't seem that far off anymore.
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