Oh no! Not another MySpace post!!
Thanks a lot FTVMS 203, thanks to you I have become addicted to myspace. I didn't want to, it just sort of happened, after hearing about myspace in class I decided to check it out. I made up a basic profile and started looking around. Now, arrogantly thought that because I didn't know about myspace then nobody else would. Within a few days a lot of my existing "real world" friends added me as Myspace friends (don't ask me how they found me but they did).
Then people were posting on this very blog questions like "how many of your myspace friends are your real world friends?" and I thought...Gee, like, all of them! So I decided to branch out and as a result have made virtual friends with people I wouldn't otherwise have met.
So that's my myspace story, but it got me thinking. I have made more friends on myspace then I have in the 203 class. Why?
Well I put it down to the fact that Myspace is a virtual ice breaker. Say for example somebody set up a 203 myspace page and everyone in the class was added as a "friend". People would then be able to surf through their classmates pages and instantly learn their interests, hobbies, music taste, film taste, TV taste....And the list goes on. Folks could then find people with similar interests and become their real life friends all because of myspace.
Would that be a good or bad thing? Do people want their classmates to know their interests? Do people want to make friends with people in their class?
I reckon most people at one or other stage in their uni life have been in a class with a hot guy or girl that they would really like to know better and then done nothing about it.
Wow that took more space than I thought.
I'd love to hear peoples opinions on the whole personality on display / virtual icebreaker thing.
Andrew S.
Then people were posting on this very blog questions like "how many of your myspace friends are your real world friends?" and I thought...Gee, like, all of them! So I decided to branch out and as a result have made virtual friends with people I wouldn't otherwise have met.
So that's my myspace story, but it got me thinking. I have made more friends on myspace then I have in the 203 class. Why?
Well I put it down to the fact that Myspace is a virtual ice breaker. Say for example somebody set up a 203 myspace page and everyone in the class was added as a "friend". People would then be able to surf through their classmates pages and instantly learn their interests, hobbies, music taste, film taste, TV taste....And the list goes on. Folks could then find people with similar interests and become their real life friends all because of myspace.
Would that be a good or bad thing? Do people want their classmates to know their interests? Do people want to make friends with people in their class?
I reckon most people at one or other stage in their uni life have been in a class with a hot guy or girl that they would really like to know better and then done nothing about it.
Wow that took more space than I thought.
I'd love to hear peoples opinions on the whole personality on display / virtual icebreaker thing.
Andrew S.
1 Comments:
I agree sites like Myspace can act as a virtual icebreaker, one of my good friends met his girlfriend on Myspace and they're very happy. But I don't think it guarantees a connection. Knowing someone online doesn't guarantee you'll connect with them in Real life.
As for people in class, I think if you wanna make friends you just have to walk up and say hi. I'm a friendly guy myself say hi to me next week =)
Caleb
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