WEEK 11 SOCIAL NETWORKING EXERCISE

PART 1 – Describe your history with and use of social networking

I think I started using social networking around high school when it started to get popular among my friends. I went to high school in the Philippines and back then Friendster was the biggest thing that ever happened to the internet. I had an account and I was into it at the beginning, but eventually stopped using it because to me it was really just a fad. Another social networking site that I signed up for was Deviantart and this was a site that was more artsy, because it targeted artists in particular for them to post up their works and socializes with fellow artists. After a while, I stopped using this as well because I stopped making digital art and got caught up with school and my social life outside the online world. I really prefer not to use social networking and enjoy social life outside the computer because I find it impersonal, lack of privacy and not to mention it clutters up my email which is very important to me. For my non-digital social networking, I like to meet my friends and family in person and use my cell phone a lot to make calls or text. I like my communication to be in real time, by that I mean getting it instantly at the moment. If I don’t, then I just go to my email for less urgent communication or long distance because it is more private. I do have a Facebook account which has been inactive for a while, I decided to discontinue using it because it can be very distracting and it does consume a lot of your time on the computer., not to mention, a lot of things that go on around in Facebook are mostly superficial matters and random babble, which are more fun and interesting to learn about through a conversation instead.