This week we were supposed to create a facebook or myspace account. I already had an account for both so I paid more attention to how I communicated with people. I have had my facebook account since freshman year at OSU and I was very against it at the start, I just thought it was going to be a waste of time and I didnt understand the point of it. Now that I have had an account for more than 4 years, I wonder how I would have kept in touch with people over the years. I am way more of a facebooker than a myspacer, I am still very new to myspace and have only had an account for around 6 months.
On facebook with all of their new applications you are now able to chat directly with other people who are online at the same time, post a message on their wall or send them a message. Facebook gives you many different options for communication. I personally like to post a wall comment rather than chat with someone on the new facebook chat app. I dont like to sit on facebook for long periods of time, I get on and write a quick message to a few of my friends and then move on to the next website, but when a friend sends a message through the chat I feel obligated to sit there and have a full blown conversation with them, or sometimes I forget that I am talking to them and I will sign out of facebook without even saying bye.
Wood and Smith had talked about synchronicity, how internet converstation can be either synchronous “real life” such as facebook chat or asynchronous ” time lag” such as a wall post or message. I think that if you have something urgent to tell someone facebook or myspace wouldnt be the form of communication that you would choose to get the information to that person. Facebook is a more common form of Asynchronous communication, and AIM chat is a better form of Synchronous communication. Facebook is a great way to interact with people over a span of time, you can have a conversation with someone throughout the day and exchange pictures, send them funny bumper stickers or pieces of flair. You can see their pictures and see what they had done over the weekend, or if you have a large group of people that you are trying to get together sending out a massive message is a great way to get your information to the people who need it. Just this weekend a giant group of my friends and I went to sunriver to go snowboarding and just hang out with eachother, and since there were 18 of us, facebook was a good way to give everyone directions and set up time to when we needed to get on the road. I use facebook for more than just posting pictures and chatting with people, I like to use it as a way to show my friends what Im doing in life. I can chat with my friends and as I say “stalk” people. I only stalk people I know, so no need to be afraid 
I hate to tell you this, but this week we were supposed to watch one of three movies and post on them….next week is myspace or facebook
By: TAmmy on January 21, 2009
at 4:29 am
I think Facebook is a great way to reconnect with old friends, meet new friends, chat with currect friends and so on. I love my facebook because it gives me a chance to see how my friends are doing without ever having to pick up the phone. Not that I don’t enjoy talking to them on the phone, I just love how you can see how there day or week is going just from Facebook alone! Gotta love that….
By: nmorgan07 on January 23, 2009
at 3:12 am
” I think that if you have something urgent to tell someone facebook or myspace wouldnt be the form of communication that you would choose to get the information to that person.”
I absolutely agree! I had a recent experience with someone who cancelled an event with me online instead of using the phone to call me. This was rather frustrating, especially since he chose to use Yahoo messenger and I had already told him I rarely get on there. Since then, I have bleeped the account entirely and minimized the online communication I have available. It felt like he could care less whether I found out soon enough or not. I felt like he didn’t care about my feelings at all.
By: Joy on January 23, 2009
at 10:27 pm
I also had a facebook and a myspace before this class, but I prefer myspace. Facebook seems a lot more difficult to understand. I have yet figured out how to search for people I know!! LOL…I know someone who has a facebook and can’t find them either. I also do not like having a conversation on there, mainly because I just don’t have time to sit there for long periods of time.
By: Tammy Roebke on January 28, 2009
at 6:19 am