How has social networking changed your life?

It’s made it easier for people with crazy ideas to get together, leading to a flourishing of preposterous conspiracy theories, which has made it harder to have intelligent conversations.

Social networking has been a great tool for me to keep in touch with everyone on a casual basis. I don’t have to worry about calling them up and fishing for what’s going on in their lives. It is also easier to get ahold of someone through social networks. I use Facebook daily and in this day and age of texting and emailing, it seems easier to get a response or conversation from people. Our society is getting less and less personal with all the gadgets we use to talk with others without using our voices. A phone call is usually sent to a voicemail or unanswered, but through texting or social networks, it seems that more people respond quicker than returning a phone call.

All in all, social networking has made it a great tool to talk to those we haven’t seen in a while, or even meeting new people from other countries. It brings the networking closer to the user. I have found family in Sweden that I now constantly talk to through Facebook. Even though the social network sites can be very addicting and time consuming, if you use it right and still stay in touch with reality, it is a great way to meet people or simply to keep in touch.

I love facebook. I use it to keep in contact with old friends and current friends. While I do feel a bit addicted, I think it has provided me and other people a great way to stay in contact with people from the past and present.

I am a sophomore at the U of M. I found out a few days ago that one of my high school classmates committed suicide. I went to her facebook page and found that there were pages and pages of notes to her (written after her death). People recounted memories of her, told her they were sorry for their drifted friendship, consoled themselves by saying they knew she was in a better place, posted pictures of her, and said belated goodbyes. I didn’t know how to interpret it; I see how it can be a beneficial tool of mourning, but I’m also slightly disturbed by it. Her online self is continuing to live while her actual being is deceased.

I have this quote from Anais Nin:

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

I sometimes feel nervous because I am friends with people that are very religious and also people who are somewhat hedonists. I am always a little afraid they are going to find out about each other. The pastor’s wife I’m “friends” with should never find my friend who is a fan of the page “I heart beer” or “I heart sex”.

At first thought my inclination was to say this phenomena has cheapened our abilities to fraternize with friends and families. Then I thought about how having Facebook does allow me to keep up with what is going on with my closest confidants even when I do not have time to call. Having the ability to write a little something on someone’s page letting them know you’re thinking of them is very comforting as well. If people are mindful of the information they showcase in these social networking places, they can be very positive additions to their current lives.

Let me Please rephrase your Question. A more apprpriate and worldly question, in a more comprehensive way, would be: How has social networking affected physical boundaries between two regions on Earth, an event whose outome, irrespective of the level of severity you might conclude, embodies consequences which have to taken with a grain of salt, at the very least, demanding consideration of some sort. The Question, come to think of it, should switch to a ‘concern’. How concerned are you? that the wagon which is life, is more like a runaway wagon, no control, and no breaks, at times downhill, taking turns and twists, that fate and chance desires. Let’s face it. There are Standard Committees scheduled and held timely two years or at National as well as International levels, for something like labels on plastic bags for commercial products, aimed at safety of infants, which is quite legitimate, however, not less critical, is a global Standard of Use of TCP/IP Channels, put it in a very light manner. It’s a very giagantic undertaking, but highly demanding, and well overdue. You might build on that, in many many directions. I for one, have collected I guess, close to 1,000 or more, of printed pages, of Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. How could I otherwise. It’s enough I miss some point in either one, and I would do something I wouldn’t lest I was aware of, whose only way os reading that Terms of Use, which without exception, all sites admonish the user that entering past the Home Page officially endorces your approval and committment to Terms depicted on that document. I mean if one is reluctant, or feels to take it losely, and take it as something unworthy to consideration, or simply an insignifacnt remark, on the side of the webmaster, then why should be there in the first place, or at least why no body of Standard or global concern, comes up to make the job easier on the webmaster and users, to draft a few standard texts, with some identification and tag, which each web site would indicate on the opening page. That way at least, the user wouldn’t have to read again, another Terms of Use, which could be basically the same as of a site visited recently. A saving on the part of the site manager, as well as user, if any of them is concerned.