Even if you’re not even registered, your friends will torture you with messages to join them on their network. The most famous social websites are the ones like MySpace and Facebook. The network you choose will depend on where most of your family and friends are registered. But why do we even bother to join these kinds of networks? And what do we even do with it after signing up?
The main reason that I joined a social network is that I can keep in touch with my foreign friends. I travel a lot and therefore I’ll meet many international people who I still want to have contact with after I got back home. The fact is that I only sent them one or two messages and after a while both can’t even be bothered to maintain this ‘friendship.’ Even though you probably never hear from them again, you’ll still keep them in your list. Probably just in case you’ll travel through their country and need a place to crash.
What I also notice on these sites, is that people can make a real competition out of networking. Some are just going for the biggest group of ‘friends’ and accept anyone that comes in their way. I really don’t see the point in this, because this way anyone can see your profile and god knows what they can do with it. With me, no one I don’t personally know will even stand a chance in getting accepted as a friend.
For me a social network site is just a way to communicate with my friends when I cannot contact them in any other way. I still prefer the phone or even e-mail, so no one else can join our personal conversation.
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