In Ian Daly's "Virtual Popularity Isn't Cool-It's Pathetic", he describes how social network sites attract people by making "friending" easy. In other words, people create online accounts, like facebook, to look for friends. He also says that people prefer to be on their social media intead of "doing their work" (480). Ian Daly sees facebook as a bad habit for people, specially older men. He mentions that "Facebook has leaked out of the college dormitory like some rare tropical disease and has begun infecting grown men in disturbingly vast numbers" (480).
I personally agree with him, because I've seen many older people really obsessed with facebook. Many people spend hours and hours surfing on their accounts, looking to find new friends. Facebook, like many other social networks, have become an addiction to many.
I agree in the sense that a lot of people, not just ones older, become addicted to these silly sites, such as Facebook. It's really interesting to see how many pictures are posted on the daily from certain people, and it makes me wonder if people think about who can actually see what is being posted. Anyone who tries hard enough can find out a LOT of information about a single person, just by scrolling through their Facebook and finding out simple things. But these simple things add up; many simple things can lead to one knowing a whole lot about someone.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that people join as means to befriend people as it seems easier to look for people and simply add them without actually knowing the person and having to interact with them in person. It has become a rising epidemic that people are getting lured into and becoming addicted like that of a drug addict who needs his/her fix. While they nothing about the person other than pictures that are posted with words on them it gives them the sense that they know the person. When in reality they probably wouldn't get along with the person and would most likely appear different in person than the person behind the computer screen.
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