Social networking

I first heard of social networking in 8th grade. A thing called myspace was all the rave and seemingly eveyone had one... except me. People from my class would say something that wasn't funny at all and everyone would laugh according to me no reason I just didn't understand what it meant to post something on a wall. What is posting? What on earth is a status update? I finally got one late that school year. I tried to take part but unfortunatly I was not truely living in the 21st century. My family had dial-up internet and people would post videos and music on there walls. These videos will start to download automatically and completely freeze my internet. So my love for myspace didn't really develop as severly as other peoples.

The next big thing that consequently myspace a joke, was facebook. It was basically the same concept but I don't know why it just seemed better than all the other networking sites of the time. People quickly starting using facebook jargon and I as well as the rest jumped onboard farely quick. Everyone quickly knew what was going on in people's lifes very quickly. You could find out almost instaneously when someone was in or out of a relationship. The saying of is it facebook official was frequently used? This also lead you to be able to know everything you could ever want to know off facebook, quite possibly way more. Facebook was/still is used as a weapon people poke fun at each other all the time and sometimes in can be quite hurtful. There is also a thing called twitter that people post everything from what they are eating to inside jokes. This is basically a simpler social network that just has status updates or tweets if you will.

Despite all these social mediums I still find face to face interaction is my favorite. Yeah, now that we have social networks it is easier to stay in touch with your all your old friends that may be hours away. There will always be a need to have friends that you are close to close in distance and that is why friendships from a far maintained through social networks will never be enough.