Granny’s on facebook
It’s becoming larger. More interactive.
It’s becoming transatlantic. Worldwide.
Social web-communities like
facebook, MySpace or Studi-/Schüler-/MeinVZ and all the others.
There is no way to get away from this.
Bands are on MySpace.
Politicians are on MeinVZ / facebook.
Cousin (10) is in icq.
Mom is on meinVZ.
Grandma is on facebook.
One of my friends said
(during a boring-as-hell-seminar
spending all our time and pleasures on facebook):
Oh, look! Grandma’s on facebook.
We died of laughter.
“I didn’t anticipate Aristotle to cause you that much fun?!”
Silence.
Granny’s on facebook. Funniest image ever.
She found her host grandma from the States online.
My grandma does not even have a cell phone. She never turned on a computer. She doesn’t even speak English.
My mom uses her PC for work. It’s my dad who writes the emails und uploads pictures, repairs the scanner and does all the research. At least my mom knows the password.
And now she knows how to get into the “Verzeichnis”-thing after I created her a profile.
“Oh no! I won’t be online ever! It is such a waste of time!”
“Hey! I saw your mom online at studi. Didn’t know she was there.
Great! I chatted with her a long time.”
…
But even it is that much fun - be aware of bad things like computer viruses / faked profiles from men with dangerous intentions / cyber-bullying / wasting your life / …
I am addicted. What about you?
See links:
http://www.facebook.com /
http://www.myspace.com /
http://www.studivz.net /
http://www.meinvz.net /
http://www.schülervz.net
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The types of communication change and not everything is bad about that. I think we could not stay in touch when we had not that much different possibilities to do. Because we never learned that staying in touch could cost time. That it does not work easily like sending a sms while you are sitting in the bus or talking to someone else on the phone. But...it had worked with our grandparents as well, or not? They survived. Without all this. Everthing wasn´t that fast but however, they stayed in touch with the people they wanted to.
ReplyDeleteAnd what about the duty to just come to a date on time. Just hold your word. It is so easy to write a damn lie into 160 signs, send it and forget about it. In grandma´s time you have had to face your problems, now the cellphone does it for you. I think on the long run our phones will get more and more facilities so that it will be able to write a lie on its own so that we will not even have to think about it on our own.
How often have you lied in this 160 signs? Think about it.