"social utility that connects you with the people around you”
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prologue:
well, as much as i hate to admit it, i am quite amused with facebook. it's already been integrated into my routine. every time i surf the internet, i'll surely, inevitably type in facebook.com (i dun save facebook in my bookmark, just in case i could still be cured off the facebook syndrome) in the first tab and other matters come next. but, this post is actually triggered by a particular topic started in the famous facebook, which in turn, revoked my love-hate relationship with FFB (you are free to percieve the abbreviation) or any social networks of the like. so, you read and tell me if i hate or love facebook. thank you.
where should i begin? ah, right.
#1: friends in friendster-friends or not?
remember the chatting channels, ICQ and MIRC? remember ICQ's signature "uh-oh"? they hold such a nostalgic value in my memory. a memory of my teen years. like all other teenagers of my time, i grew up using icq and then mirc. but, after a year, i ran out of topics and decided that i would not be using icq and mirc again. then, comes along the frienster. soon, friends were talking about adding friends and sending testimonials to each other. i was curious. how could you not tell what you feel and what you want to say to your friends face to face, but choose to write all that in friendster, which requires more work and effort.
out of curiosity and undeniably, the popularity, i signed up an account and i have since became a victim of friendster. before long, i found myself checking out everybody's profiles and pictures while condemning those who lock their profiles as private. *damn, this guy is handsome. i wanna see his pics/ kedekut betul!* i even checked to see if people actually writes in my testimonial box. that's also the starting of the narcissism in me.
one of the most interesting fact in friendster is the number of friends you have. the friendly count is a measure to your own popularity. basically, the more, the better. if the count is 10, it means you are a newbie, judging from the date you registered. if you are in for a long time, but your count of friends is still between 20-30, it means you are not so popular. translation: you are not the pretty/handsome type that people feel you should be worthy of knowing. on the good side, you can invade people's privacy more then yours being invaded. if you have up to 400 friends, your popularity is rate #2. translation: you are the beautiful type/macho type. constitution of friends probably your old school mates, your collegues, your bf/gf's friends, and someone who thinks both of you have the same interest. if your count exceeds 400 to uncountable that some needs to open a few more friendster accounts, bravo. your popularity is un-questionable. probably, you are one hot/dashing/handsome/sexiest person alive. and your friends probably consist of your old school mates, your collegues, your bf/gf's friends, your bf/gf's friends' friends, and yadda yadda yadda. i doubt that this particular popular person even stay in touch with 80% of the friends in his libraries.
as you might have guessed, my count of friends falls between the range of 20-40. but, BUT, i do not have anything against these beautiful people out there. this is just a mere opinion, not biased or prejudiced. in fact i have a confession to make. i was one of those people who envy about the high count and who gets excited when someone sends in a friend request. even though i do not add people randomly but i admit that i did accept the friend requests-me and my twisted principle.
an embarrassing piece to leak: i even edited my friendster profile two or three times to make it look "friendly" and "cool", all for the sake that it would catch some attention. now, looking back at the profile, i felt like puking. blerggghh! elaborating further will only have me dying of "geli-ness".
#2: facebook-starts with the letter F too!
so, it's the era of facebook, said a friend. whatever happens to friendster? is it joining the icq-mirc league? but, never mind that. facebook is much much more cooler and nicer then friendster. it's the in thing now. it's like a drug. you can get pms if you were denied access into facebook.
the term facebooking is a netlingo now but who knows, in the long run, it's a legal word and you can search it in dictionaries. perhaps something like this:
facebooking verb
/ˈfeɪs.bʊk.ɪŋ/
the act/process of logging into facebook, [copy-paste tagline] and indulging in its various activities such as restaurant city, pet society, happy farm town, updating and commenting on status, uploading pictures and videos; and etc.
E.g: She was facebooking in the lab when the lecturer wasn't looking.
truthfully, i enjoy facebooking very much. i think restaurant city is pretty childish but i am childish enough to play it. without fail, i water my plants next to my restaurant, feed my workers, answer the quizzes, visit my next-door-restaurateur and the next next next to see if i missed out my chance to collect free ingredients and redecorate my restaurant when my restaurant is profitting. wtfish!
reading friends' status and comments has been a favourite pastime too. nothing entertains more than reading these. commenting is even more entertaining. you can choose to agree, or to disagree or sometimes to black-humour someone. *evil evil grin*
the thing with facebook is that it is quite the same as friendster. the problem arises here. so-called friends aren't even sincere about befriending you. there is a reason why they added you. agree? well of course there are always some exceptions. but if you add this person, maybe you can get free ingredients if you are visiting his restaurant for the first time or what? (i only play restaurant city) no harm right? that's the whole point of facebook.
and oh boy! i do love the quizzes. 'naff said.
although facebook isn't really personal or claimed to be getting less personal, it has been a source of entertainment to me.
where should i begin? ah, right.
#1: friends in friendster-friends or not?
remember the chatting channels, ICQ and MIRC? remember ICQ's signature "uh-oh"? they hold such a nostalgic value in my memory. a memory of my teen years. like all other teenagers of my time, i grew up using icq and then mirc. but, after a year, i ran out of topics and decided that i would not be using icq and mirc again. then, comes along the frienster. soon, friends were talking about adding friends and sending testimonials to each other. i was curious. how could you not tell what you feel and what you want to say to your friends face to face, but choose to write all that in friendster, which requires more work and effort.
out of curiosity and undeniably, the popularity, i signed up an account and i have since became a victim of friendster. before long, i found myself checking out everybody's profiles and pictures while condemning those who lock their profiles as private. *damn, this guy is handsome. i wanna see his pics/ kedekut betul!* i even checked to see if people actually writes in my testimonial box. that's also the starting of the narcissism in me.
one of the most interesting fact in friendster is the number of friends you have. the friendly count is a measure to your own popularity. basically, the more, the better. if the count is 10, it means you are a newbie, judging from the date you registered. if you are in for a long time, but your count of friends is still between 20-30, it means you are not so popular. translation: you are not the pretty/handsome type that people feel you should be worthy of knowing. on the good side, you can invade people's privacy more then yours being invaded. if you have up to 400 friends, your popularity is rate #2. translation: you are the beautiful type/macho type. constitution of friends probably your old school mates, your collegues, your bf/gf's friends, and someone who thinks both of you have the same interest. if your count exceeds 400 to uncountable that some needs to open a few more friendster accounts, bravo. your popularity is un-questionable. probably, you are one hot/dashing/handsome/sexiest person alive. and your friends probably consist of your old school mates, your collegues, your bf/gf's friends, your bf/gf's friends' friends, and yadda yadda yadda. i doubt that this particular popular person even stay in touch with 80% of the friends in his libraries.
as you might have guessed, my count of friends falls between the range of 20-40. but, BUT, i do not have anything against these beautiful people out there. this is just a mere opinion, not biased or prejudiced. in fact i have a confession to make. i was one of those people who envy about the high count and who gets excited when someone sends in a friend request. even though i do not add people randomly but i admit that i did accept the friend requests-me and my twisted principle.
an embarrassing piece to leak: i even edited my friendster profile two or three times to make it look "friendly" and "cool", all for the sake that it would catch some attention. now, looking back at the profile, i felt like puking. blerggghh! elaborating further will only have me dying of "geli-ness".
#2: facebook-starts with the letter F too!
so, it's the era of facebook, said a friend. whatever happens to friendster? is it joining the icq-mirc league? but, never mind that. facebook is much much more cooler and nicer then friendster. it's the in thing now. it's like a drug. you can get pms if you were denied access into facebook.
the term facebooking is a netlingo now but who knows, in the long run, it's a legal word and you can search it in dictionaries. perhaps something like this:
facebooking verb
/ˈfeɪs.bʊk.ɪŋ/
the act/process of logging into facebook, [copy-paste tagline] and indulging in its various activities such as restaurant city, pet society, happy farm town, updating and commenting on status, uploading pictures and videos; and etc.
E.g: She was facebooking in the lab when the lecturer wasn't looking.
truthfully, i enjoy facebooking very much. i think restaurant city is pretty childish but i am childish enough to play it. without fail, i water my plants next to my restaurant, feed my workers, answer the quizzes, visit my next-door-restaurateur and the next next next to see if i missed out my chance to collect free ingredients and redecorate my restaurant when my restaurant is profitting. wtfish!
reading friends' status and comments has been a favourite pastime too. nothing entertains more than reading these. commenting is even more entertaining. you can choose to agree, or to disagree or sometimes to black-humour someone. *evil evil grin*
the thing with facebook is that it is quite the same as friendster. the problem arises here. so-called friends aren't even sincere about befriending you. there is a reason why they added you. agree? well of course there are always some exceptions. but if you add this person, maybe you can get free ingredients if you are visiting his restaurant for the first time or what? (i only play restaurant city) no harm right? that's the whole point of facebook.
and oh boy! i do love the quizzes. 'naff said.
although facebook isn't really personal or claimed to be getting less personal, it has been a source of entertainment to me.
epilogue:
my writing here is not to prove that facebook is a piece of useless junk. no, of course! and i think i need to take facebooketamol pills to ease my fever.
time has it's own way of softening the rough edges. i can almost imagine myself chuckling at all those silly comments made and the bombs threw at each other in a very long long long time to come. i think this is what that defines part of our early 20s. oh, gosh. i am laughing now!
*this post is something i had in mind sometimes ago, but with many thoughts dissipating away in the end. as much as i enjoy writing this, i hope you enjoy reading it too (if there's someone :))*
time has it's own way of softening the rough edges. i can almost imagine myself chuckling at all those silly comments made and the bombs threw at each other in a very long long long time to come. i think this is what that defines part of our early 20s. oh, gosh. i am laughing now!
*this post is something i had in mind sometimes ago, but with many thoughts dissipating away in the end. as much as i enjoy writing this, i hope you enjoy reading it too (if there's someone :))*
