Past few years have seen a surge in the way we communicate and socialize - all so because of one of the powerful medium - the internet.
We capitalize so much on social networking sites such as facebook, orkut, myspace, blogspot etc. these days that life seems to be incomplete without them. Then there is professional networking through linkedIn and there is twitter for fast dispersal of information in less than 170 characters. All these things have completely changed our lives and styles over the past few years. I see facebook as the biggest human database storing lot of information than any other database. One can simply open a page and judge the behavioral patterns of people. Now a days recruiters rely more on social networking media to judge the candidates attitude, weaknesses and characters to some extent. A lot of other information is provided by google itself.
As a facebook user myself, I have seen, there is a paradigm shift in "keeping in touch" with our family and friends. I have some 105 facebook friends, out of which most of them are colleagues or ex-colleagues. Then there are family, friends, class mates, people from office with whom I never worked before or old friends. Everyday, this has become a rule for me to get up and see the facebook page for updates. I can now categorize the people I know into 7 distinct categories:
1. Casual users
2. Attention seekers
3. Eager to know what others think about me
4. Want to voice their opinion on things like science, politics etc.
5. I don't care about you but you have to care about me.
6. Recluse.
7. Real social networking users.
The first category is the casual users who post photos, videos not so often and sometimes come to browse the site and occasionally post messages and write on somebody's wall or respond to somebodys comment. This category usually has the busiest people who hardly get time to browse.
The second category is that of the attention seekers who consider facebook as seventh heaven for them. Because they can reach a number of people all the time and want people to say something about them or respond. This category has people who don't go by a certain trend rather they change it according to people's response. The third is the one who likes to post beautiful pictures and photographs of themselves or their families eager to know what others may be thinking about them. Then the fourth is the category who often like to share intellectual information through the site. They post a link on an article/paper etc., voice their political opinion and disseminate knowledge. This is the intellectual category. Then the fifth is the one who always post their information, but barely reads what others have to say. They are only concerned about themselves. The Recluse are the category that worries about their privacy. They don't want to share any information because they believe, it will be an invasion into their privacy. In my opinion they should not be there in facebook at all. As the rationale behind creating facebook was to share information. The creators think, you should not be doing something that you need to hide from people in the first place... Now the last category is the real responsible users who know the true meaning of social networking. They don't over indulge in anything or are obsessed with attention. They genuinely post messages that they want people should know. And at the same time, they also read others information and react when needed. Not you didn't react to my post, so I won't react to yours type.
Now today this much for the social networking... Have a happy Saturday.
We capitalize so much on social networking sites such as facebook, orkut, myspace, blogspot etc. these days that life seems to be incomplete without them. Then there is professional networking through linkedIn and there is twitter for fast dispersal of information in less than 170 characters. All these things have completely changed our lives and styles over the past few years. I see facebook as the biggest human database storing lot of information than any other database. One can simply open a page and judge the behavioral patterns of people. Now a days recruiters rely more on social networking media to judge the candidates attitude, weaknesses and characters to some extent. A lot of other information is provided by google itself.
As a facebook user myself, I have seen, there is a paradigm shift in "keeping in touch" with our family and friends. I have some 105 facebook friends, out of which most of them are colleagues or ex-colleagues. Then there are family, friends, class mates, people from office with whom I never worked before or old friends. Everyday, this has become a rule for me to get up and see the facebook page for updates. I can now categorize the people I know into 7 distinct categories:
1. Casual users
2. Attention seekers
3. Eager to know what others think about me
4. Want to voice their opinion on things like science, politics etc.
5. I don't care about you but you have to care about me.
6. Recluse.
7. Real social networking users.
The first category is the casual users who post photos, videos not so often and sometimes come to browse the site and occasionally post messages and write on somebody's wall or respond to somebodys comment. This category usually has the busiest people who hardly get time to browse.
The second category is that of the attention seekers who consider facebook as seventh heaven for them. Because they can reach a number of people all the time and want people to say something about them or respond. This category has people who don't go by a certain trend rather they change it according to people's response. The third is the one who likes to post beautiful pictures and photographs of themselves or their families eager to know what others may be thinking about them. Then the fourth is the category who often like to share intellectual information through the site. They post a link on an article/paper etc., voice their political opinion and disseminate knowledge. This is the intellectual category. Then the fifth is the one who always post their information, but barely reads what others have to say. They are only concerned about themselves. The Recluse are the category that worries about their privacy. They don't want to share any information because they believe, it will be an invasion into their privacy. In my opinion they should not be there in facebook at all. As the rationale behind creating facebook was to share information. The creators think, you should not be doing something that you need to hide from people in the first place... Now the last category is the real responsible users who know the true meaning of social networking. They don't over indulge in anything or are obsessed with attention. They genuinely post messages that they want people should know. And at the same time, they also read others information and react when needed. Not you didn't react to my post, so I won't react to yours type.
Now today this much for the social networking... Have a happy Saturday.
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