Facebook

The first time I joined Facebook it was an exciting time because you had to be “invited” by someone or you needed a college email account. I felt special and one of a kind because not everyone was allowed to access this website. Soon after I got my “invite” the rules changed and allowed everyone to join. Gradually everyone in my graduating class had one which made it easier to meet people before going off to my freshman year at college because we all joined a group “MSM Class of 2011”. As a few years went on I began receiving friend requests from older cousins and then my own mother! There has been an outbreak of an older crowd who consume our News Feeds with quizzes and pictures of themselves when they were in middle school and high school. Who would of thought that this secretive website could turn into such a phenomenon over a few years.

I remember when Facebook changed its layout and everyone freaked out because no one knew how to work it and wanted to have the old set up back. But after a month everyone got the hang of it. I truly don’t even remember what the old Facebook even looked like. As I was reading the article “I’m So Totally, Digitally Closer to You” by Clive Thompson, I realized people were against the “Live News Feed” because there was no privacy because everything you did was posted. I figure if you don’t have the privacy you want why in the world are you even posting something you don’t want other people to see. Also, why in the world do you even have a Facebook? Websites like Facebook and Twitter have created friendships with people we may have never met.  I know I have because if it wasn’t for Facebook I would have never have talked to my boyfriend after we met at a party. It was Facebook that allowed us to have another conversation. Just like the article’s title people are becoming “digitally closer”.

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