I miss Friendster. I miss the part where you can see who viewed your profile. You also have to make an effort to go to other people’s page to know them more because you admire them or just curious of them. When you post, no one would know it unless they visit your page. There’s no Newsfeed where every post of yours will be seen by all of those who are in your friend list. You just browse pictures. You customize your page to express your personality.
Posting in Facebook is quite embarrassing now. It’s equivalent to showing off. It’s too public. Besides, it’s not a place like a blog to log your life. Facebook is not your diary. It’s not an Instagram for you to bombard it with pictures. It is currently a place where you can easily call the attention of people from different walks of life. Some people rant and get annoyed. You receive unsolicited information through your friend’s post even if you don’t really need or like what they’ve said.
I hope this is where Google+ enters. I hope they could revive Friendster by adapting some of its old features in their site. Then they’ll have moderators to avoid obscenity. It will be a place to dig helpful information for personal or academic growth (just like with forums). The main feature will be blogs where members can be compensated through advertisement at the same time. More of like a combination of blogging and modern Friendster.
The only consolation I have from Facebook is that it’s a place where most people online can be found. You can find helpful groups that cater your interest. Say like you can join a group of a certain brand or unit of a phone that’s similar to what you own and learn relevant trends, tips and troubleshooting. If you have a certain illness, you can join a group and hear the other members’ experience and learn possible cure.
Correct! I miss Friendster myself, I had my online journal there. But of course FB has been very helpful in finding long lost relatives and friends. Honestly, now i seldom post on FB.
ReplyDeleteI was late about the online journal and was not able to make my own ms. Chiq. Perhaps that was also the time where blogging became famous. Maybe it doesn't have my interest yet for I've heavily relied a lot with just free wifi. Though before the end of friendster, I saw some journal written by my FS friends that I wish was able to read. I may have found my old relatives but nothing really have changed. It may have created an excitement at first, but nothing really happened to make my relationship with my relatives stronger unlike when there's no facebook yet and we send text messages, snail mail, yahoo mail or personally visited then. How ironic.
DeleteYeah, I missed Friendster too! Especially the testimonials from my friends.
ReplyDeleteI miss that too. I've downloaded a back up of it when they've closed their site. Reading those words can be very touching. Minsan kasi it's mostly on funeral where our friends say those things.
DeleteI agree that there are pros and cons with Facebook and so does with Friendster. I do miss Friendster and the testimonial days. But let's not forget that Facebook made the world smaller for all of us. Based on experience, I was able to find my classmates from way back kinder and so did my parents. In my opinion, Facebook is not as bad as it actually looks. The main problem is the users. Just because they had the freedom to do things (ex: comment, post, etc), they abuse it.
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Hello Louise! I don't really mean that Facebook is bad. There's just some disappointments. True enough, I understand that it's mostly caused by the behavior of the users. But I still hate the silence and the lack of encouragement for proper netiquette. Thanks for sharing your insight anyway... :)
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