How do we see the social network sites (SNSs) and its "friends"
Saturday, September 5, 2009 by Tina
Due to the popularity of the social network sites (SNSs) in the contemporary society, such as "Myspace" and "Facebook", people spends relative more time on the internet rather than participating in the outdoor activity. The SNSs does not simply perform as an entertainment role in our daily lives, but also the tool of communication. It is a place for us to continue the unfinished conversation when we met with our friends face to face. Instead of arranging time for meeting up with close friends, people can just simply type messages on their friends' homepage and wait for replies. People often receive the message that says someone has added them as their friend and with their "mutual" friends underneath, thus it can be said that on top of the communication with people who they know, SNSs is a way of meeting new people, which completes their social lives.
It is often to see two groups of people whose points of view of the "friends" of the SNSs are different. For some people. there is a concern of whether those people are trustworthy when one adds those "strangers" to the "friends" list. Even though it is already said that he or she is a friend of the person's existing friend, but it is still hard to know who the person really without talking to people face to face, so the language and the content of messages that those people have put down in one's profile can sometimes to be questioned.
For some people on the other hand, they see the SNSs more as an entertainment tool. These people use SNSs as a source of updating friends' status, "surfing" photos and blogs of their friends. They tend to read more of others' blogs rather than spending time to write their own. Furthermore, People have their own definition of "friendship" as well as different attitudes towards such term. For those who think more when adding "friends" tends to be serious about their relationship with the "friends", thus they pay extra time of thinking the appropriate way of treating these people. The others who take SNSs as a role of entertainment tend to worry less about who the "friends" are and what they are like.