Sunday, January 27, 2008
Cyberculture
I was introduced to cyberculture when I was like ten. I never have really gotten into the whole thing to be honest with you. I think that the computer is an amazing machine but I think people are misusing it when they do some of the things they are doing with it. The thing that I dislike the most is the ways people have been communicating over the internet. I do not believe in making friends on the computer. People are totally different online and its NOT REAL! Okay your not outgoing and sometimes shy, you get behind a computer and now you have the courage to talk to people? Then what are you going to do when you are in a real place with these people? Some people meet a boyfriend or girlfriend on the computer. In my opinion that is horrible. I do no think thats right in any way. I think that facebook and myspace would be alrite if you used it just as a way to communicate with your current friends and not to make new friends.
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i totally agree with you. people are not who they really are when they are online. we become this whole different personality. which is why i never really got into using AIM or anything until a few years ago. but only to talk to my freinds who have left that i rarely get to see anymore. i just use it to stay in touch. same w/ myspace and facebook. i use it to comment or message people i dont talk to much. it's more convenient. yea, sometimes i'll waste an hour looking at random peoples sites. but serioulsy how do you meet a boyfriend or girlfriend when you havent really met!? its so ridiculous.
I think you are right about people misusing computers. All these horrible pictures people put up. Don't they realize they are never going to be erased?!?! I do get new friend requests almost everytime I'm online. I think its alright to meet people as long as you're not making yourself out to be a totally different person than you actually are. About that boy/girlfriend thing, I will NOT trust N-E-BODY I meet on online unless I know them personally!!
Of course there is an amount of personal responsibility everyone should assume when interacting online. Nothing is truly private on the internet, and I do agree people should proceed with caution when setting up real life meetings with online friends.
I wouldn't say it's entirely fake, though.
I've met plenty of people online who I later met in real life. These people have become my real life friends as a result of virtual interaction. I don't understand wanting to limit oneself to their own social circles when there's an entire globe out there at their fingertips.
I agree with you on communicating with people online. It's a good way to communciate with your friends and family. I disagree with how people talk differently online whenever i message poeple i was write how i talk, and how people meet online one of my friends met his girlfriend online and now they have been going out for about 3 years. I would never try and meet a stranger online though.
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