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The New York Times had similar thoughts. Check out this really neat article there on how a daughter is pissed off because her mum gets a Facebook! "But after receiving a follow-up threat from my daughter ("unfriend
paige right now. im serious. i dont care if they request you. say no. i
will be soo mad if you dont unfriend paige right now. actually"), I
started worrying that allowing parents in would backfire on Facebook." While I wonder about how the younger generation will react as more of us 'oldies' go in there, I must say I am really having a blast at facebook. After a long time, a social networking site has really drawn me in. Along with a few others, I thought I had reached the limit way back in 2003, when there was this mad scramble to invite all your friends to every new social networking site that came about. This time, when I got my own Facebook, I find myself behaving differently. I find I am not inviting all my friends in there, or sending out one of those blanket join me at facebook sort of message to everyone. I find a lot of my family, old and young, in India and abroad, are in there and we're having fun peeking into each others' lives and reconnecting in ways we haven't done via email or even chat. Many of my close blogging buddies are in there too - and I am enjoying learning about so many new facets of their lives with applications like Trip, Last.fm, Ask a question, books, movies, photos etc. Facebook also lets me feel I own my own page there - something Ryze lost a long while ago with its new UI. Stuart had expressed this feeling so eloquently then: "There's no sense of art in a place where artisans play "The new stuff? Says RYZE first --- ME
second. What was the brief? Oh probably make the community more
professional looking. You have any recommendations? Is there a
strategy? Is there a business model? Ryze could have had it all." Facebook today offers me that sense of art where artisans play, that sense of personality, that canvas for me and my friends to colour on, that sense of my space (pun intended!). And its all happening in my time at ease, without that pressure to be really active on it that there was while many of us were indulging in some Serious Play at other networks. Tags: Facebook, social networking, social networks, social media 7:42:42 PM comment [] trackback []
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