Social Networking

In today's class, we discussed social networking. Many people today are familiar with social networking sites. There are several purposes to use these sites. Some people use them for communicating with other people, while others use them for their satisfaction.

As for me, I used to have Myspace and now have facebook and mixi. I don't write something on these sites very much, but I always log in and see what is going on with all my friends. Mostly, I open facebook in order to contact my friends in other countries, who I can only contact with through facebook. I have been to some countries and made friends. Then whenever I couldn't exchange address or phone number with my new friends, I looked for them on facebook or they looked for me so that we can keep in touch with each other. It is hard to contact with someone who is in another country, however through facebook, I can contact with him or her easily.Furthermore, sometimes I don't feel like telling my number or address when I meet new people because I don't know them very much. However, telling them to look for me on facebook instead of telling them my number is more safety.On facebook, I can share pictures with my friends and I can feel like my friends in other countries actually don't live in different countries. I don't feel too far away from them, so It is a good point for me to use facebook.

The problem is that I am to addicted to opening facebook. I know there is nothing to do other than seeing other people's posts and writing about myself, but I cannot stop watching it. I never notice till midnight that I was watching facebook for a few hours.I think I need to delete my account some day so that I can come back to my real life.

I used to have Myspace when I was high school student. So there has been always social networking sites in my life since then. There are some good points and bad points in using social networking sites. And I think some new sites which are more useful will be created one day. Then many people will get an account for a new site later.