I did an experiment in my psychology class where I found that there is a positive correlation between the importance of social life and Facebook activity. Huh! Well, we might think that who didn't know this, but it was fun to see that in real life data.
I am pretty much a Facebook fan. I love connecting with my old friends from school over Facebook, and also love to share pictures with family and friends. But, as Grumpy has said, I too will die of sleep deprivation if Facebook adds a "dislike" button!
Why?
Mainly for the stupid things people share, without thinking. Those "pleas of help" for some missing child or "important information to share" are absolute spams. They do no help in anyway other than directing traffic to the spammers sites, or worse still, can be depots of malware. Also, for those things like - what to do when people throw eggs at your windscreen or enter your ATM pin the other way to avoid robbery are as stupid as they can get. And I seriously wonder at the intellect of those people who re-post them. Has anyone ever tried to enter the pin backwards? Has anyone tested that? If that was the case, banks would let you know that. Oh, and those of you who think Facebook will donate 1 cent for each "like", you are sadly mistaken. If you really want to help anyone, go do something tangible. This way you are satisfying yourself that you are "helping" some poor person when in reality you are helping spread spam!
The worst of the lot is sharing pictures of gods and thinking that will bring good luck, or it will cause bad things if you don't share. People who think they are smart actually share these!!! ROFL!!! :D :D
Less irritating, but still weird is how people share random quotations and just put the name of someone famous. Then those quotations start making their rounds through people's walls. Again ROFL!!
Then again are the philosophical messages. I didn't know people were so philosophical before I saw those on Facebook. In real life they seem as rash and hot headed as every other person, but on Facebook they share Zen quotations :D
Another thing I fail to understand is, pictures (of girls) ALWAYS have people commenting "so sweet", "so pretty", "OMG! You look fabulous". Do people really mean those? Same about baby pictures. Everyone say "how cute". Seriously? I understand that most baby pictures are cute, but surely not always!
Then there are what I call the "bandwagonish" status messages. If some famous person dies, everyone have to comment RIP :D Started with Steve Jobs, then it goes on and on and on. People who never read say some author's books would be the first ones to comment RIP when that author dies.
Still these bandwagonish messages are better than those whose creativity ends at a status message saying "good morning friends". Hehehe!
The WORST of the entire thing is writing in that special style where letters are eaten up. Where "that" becomes "dat" and "I'm" becomes "m". Nowadays people write bengali in this way too, using Roman script! I sometimes wonder why? There might be a need of this style when people compose text messages, where using more letters might make it longer. But' what's the use of this online? You have a full keyboard to use and no one is setting restrictions on how many letters you can use. It's not even "cool". It makes the stupid messages look even more stupid.
So, the end verdict is, Facebook is an awesome thing. It helps us connect with people for social, family and business reasons...and it is a real life experiment where you can just sit an observe human psychology. I'm definitely going to recommend this to any alien if they want to have a crash course on understanding the basic of human behavior!
I am pretty much a Facebook fan. I love connecting with my old friends from school over Facebook, and also love to share pictures with family and friends. But, as Grumpy has said, I too will die of sleep deprivation if Facebook adds a "dislike" button!
Why?
Mainly for the stupid things people share, without thinking. Those "pleas of help" for some missing child or "important information to share" are absolute spams. They do no help in anyway other than directing traffic to the spammers sites, or worse still, can be depots of malware. Also, for those things like - what to do when people throw eggs at your windscreen or enter your ATM pin the other way to avoid robbery are as stupid as they can get. And I seriously wonder at the intellect of those people who re-post them. Has anyone ever tried to enter the pin backwards? Has anyone tested that? If that was the case, banks would let you know that. Oh, and those of you who think Facebook will donate 1 cent for each "like", you are sadly mistaken. If you really want to help anyone, go do something tangible. This way you are satisfying yourself that you are "helping" some poor person when in reality you are helping spread spam!
The worst of the lot is sharing pictures of gods and thinking that will bring good luck, or it will cause bad things if you don't share. People who think they are smart actually share these!!! ROFL!!! :D :D
Less irritating, but still weird is how people share random quotations and just put the name of someone famous. Then those quotations start making their rounds through people's walls. Again ROFL!!
Then again are the philosophical messages. I didn't know people were so philosophical before I saw those on Facebook. In real life they seem as rash and hot headed as every other person, but on Facebook they share Zen quotations :D
Another thing I fail to understand is, pictures (of girls) ALWAYS have people commenting "so sweet", "so pretty", "OMG! You look fabulous". Do people really mean those? Same about baby pictures. Everyone say "how cute". Seriously? I understand that most baby pictures are cute, but surely not always!
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Then there are what I call the "bandwagonish" status messages. If some famous person dies, everyone have to comment RIP :D Started with Steve Jobs, then it goes on and on and on. People who never read say some author's books would be the first ones to comment RIP when that author dies.
Still these bandwagonish messages are better than those whose creativity ends at a status message saying "good morning friends". Hehehe!
The WORST of the entire thing is writing in that special style where letters are eaten up. Where "that" becomes "dat" and "I'm" becomes "m". Nowadays people write bengali in this way too, using Roman script! I sometimes wonder why? There might be a need of this style when people compose text messages, where using more letters might make it longer. But' what's the use of this online? You have a full keyboard to use and no one is setting restrictions on how many letters you can use. It's not even "cool". It makes the stupid messages look even more stupid.
So, the end verdict is, Facebook is an awesome thing. It helps us connect with people for social, family and business reasons...and it is a real life experiment where you can just sit an observe human psychology. I'm definitely going to recommend this to any alien if they want to have a crash course on understanding the basic of human behavior!
