Friday, 4 March 2011

Everyone Facebook Addicted

I joined Facebook in late 2007, for over two years. Till now I always spend over two hours each day on Facebook. Although I haven't got smartphones to keep on status, I refreshed time to time on my computer, just for updates in the homepage.

In my first year using Facebook, what I know about it is only "add friends", "write posts" or "posting photos", just like what I do in MSN or blogging. Gradually I found my old friends and even primary classmates in Facebook, and I began addicted in this social network site. I played different games like online quiz, happy farm or psychology tests; I tagged photos and leave comments among my friends; I join my friends' event or organising gathering through facebook etc.

Some people may have a lot of friends, that may have a number of FB accounts because others are full. One of my company's star tutor claimed he has 4 accounts of full 5000 friends i.e. 20000 friends. Some of my classmates began to ask me "Why only 234 friends, you have not expose enough."


I haven't got a analysis on my friends list, till I met Friend Wheel apps. Kindly it helps me to group my friends and form a simple graph of the connections.

For the upper half are my friends in the same secondary school, and the lower one are ones of meeting in this four years of university life.

For honest, this is an alarm to me. I don't add friends that I don't know. The wheel reveals my life encircled by WahYanites (secondary life) and CityU buddies. Both of them are strong bonding groups and having a limitation to my future life. For the lower half, it is not stronger than the upper one; but I can find it become strengthening and the area will be totally filled with colours if no other action is taken.








My classmates are somehow right. My approach to meet FB friends have a room of improvement. Maybe I can create more weak ties to different groups, in addition to just two large strong groups. The first priority to this approach is the action in reality. Let's ACT NOW!!!!
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2 comments:

  1. Claire Lam7 March 2011 at 15:29

    Most of my Fb friends I have come from secondary school and CityU too!! haha!! And I dont have enough weak ties either. Sometimes, my sister's or my friends' friends added me but I refused because of the privacy concern. I think it's normal for us not to add someone who are not familiar with us or we are not familiar with. Gradually, we lose many weak ties. :P

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  2. Whyki8 March 2011 at 13:24

    I think it is okay for not adding people we don't know. There are so much personal information and it is a way to protect ourselves.

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