Mark Zuckerberg said, "...Facebook has evolved to make sharing information more efficient and to give people more control" in his facebook blog. But my opinion on facebook is that it actually had an adverse effect when it comes to "giving people control" in sharing information.
No one can deny that facebook has way too much information going around. Mark argues that it made it easier for us to find information- but whether that information is important or usable is rather questionable. Maybe there is very important information on facebook... but how do we supposed to find them?
Are status updates like "this person is eating an apple pie" worth sharing with his 500+ facebook friends? Will those friends appreciate that information?
I think that people have more control over sharing information in "real-world" social networking. The time and source is limited in real-world social networking, so people tend to focus on sharing very important information.
But of course, we cannot live without online-social networking and the benefits that they bring to us.
I think the challenge for social networking sites today is to sort the information in the way that users receive right kind of information they are looking for more precisely. And users of those sites should also consider what kind of information they should be sending out to the world.
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12 years ago
I totally agree with you. People shoud think about what kind of information should be sent and recieved, because there is too many routes of delivering information, in social networking system.
ReplyDeleteI tatally agree with you. People shoud think about what kind of information should be sent and received in social networking system, becuase there are too many routes delivering information.
ReplyDeleteHaha I love what you said about whether the information on Facebook is actually important because it's so true. But another point to consider is not the information with share with our Facebook friends, but with the administrators of the site and advertisers. Facebook shares so much of our personal information that we don't know about it. If you notice the ads on the side of your Facebook page, you can tell that they take the information you post and share ads with you that they think will interest you. It's scary because we don't know who they are sharing that information with.
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of scary how nowadays one can instantly match a name to a face via someone's facebook profile picture. Such a huge potential for shallow judgments, say by a job interviewer or recruiter.
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