Look What You've Done...

Facebook have brought to us many goodness in one site. You can make friends, play games, get notification on friend's birthday, wish them 'Happy Birthday' on their wall. You may soon even be able to send the gifts through Facebook! But what has Facebook taken away from us?

At this point, you should know that most actions have a trade off. Handphones allow us to store numbers of friends, disintegrating our innate ability to memorize the phone numbers. The connectivity handphone provides also reduces punctuality. The goodness that Facebook brought about also took something equally, if not more important from us.

Goodness: Whats on your mind? You could let all your friends know what you're thinking and you can read what all your friends are thinking. Great way to know you friends better - on the surface that is.

My Feelings: Its degenerating I feel. You don't exactly know the person by reading their walls! Meet the person up, have a HTHT (heart-to-heart-talk). But people just don't get it. They feel this is a good way.

Impact: Less socializing among friends. More friends, more superficial friends.

Goodness: Games! Everyone likes playing games. Mousehunt is one of my favourite in Facebook. Its a passive game where you sound a horn every 15min to try to catch a mouse.

My Feelings: Good game. Really. But where is the socializing again? The games on Facebook does allow you to 'play with a friend', like for mousehunt you sound a horn for a friend at the same location. But where is the dynamic of coordination? And its way tooo distracting.

Impact: Games are solo games. No interaction. Distraction, from work.

Goodness: People You May Know. Add as friend. Its on the right side of the home page. Lets you quickly find long lost friend and reconnect.

My Feelings: I've used this function quite alot... When I use it I never post anything on the person's wall. Its like.. reconnect on facebook but not really connected anymore.

Impact: Quick reconnection, buff your friend list. Thats it.

All and all, Facebook is awesome. Mark did a fantastic job. Its concept was for everything good. Its just people start abusing Facebook, choosing to substitute reality with it. 5th of December, lets all ask those friends that matters out amd hang out physically. Its a date.

RandOM:Crush