Barely 20 years ago the only way you had to stay in touch with your school friends was if you still lived in the area and you were in contact with these friends from the time you left school.
The first time I had access to the World wide web was probably when I worked at the SABC back in 1996, the first thing I remember doing was looking for old friends, and at that stage there was a site called SAreunited, where I managed to get in touch with some old school friends.
Welcome 2004 and the birth of Facebook, which is now 13 years ago and has made Mark Zuckerburg into a multi billionaire. I must say Facebook has been the most wonderful internet web site to find old friends that had moved away and you had lost touch with. I always consider someone a friend regardless of what has happened in the past, however when my husband started using facebook he did make me realize that Facebook is not always "real".
He would say, this guy couldn't give me the time of day at school, so why does he want to be my friend on Facebook? and I realized, yea a whole heap of my "facebook friends" didn't want to know me at school, in some cases they bullied me.
A lot of people will only post good stuff on Facebook, they never tell you about the hardships they have been through, and I guess people don't really want to know. For instance, you don't want to know that the guy in your class you thought was so nice, actually beat up his girlfriend.
And if you are destitute, don't ask for help from your facebook friends, because they wouldn't give you brass farthing. I sometimes wonder why I keep up my profile on Facebook, but I guess it is like anything you don't want to lose touch again with those you have found, but is it really that important?
Are we just nosey individuals wanting to know about everyone's lives? And do we really know the people we make friends with? .... I don't think so!!!! I have proved this, I created a ficticious Facebook profile, with a ficticious name but with Genuine schools and universities, I then requessted about 100 people to become my friend, I even had a profile photo - only 1 person out of all of them asked the question - "Where do you know me from?", the rest just blindly accepted my friend request! So here I am a complete stranger to you, and yet you are sharing all your personal information with me, not very safe is it!
So I guess now you will be a lot more careful on who you choose to be Facebook Friends with! Right?
The first time I had access to the World wide web was probably when I worked at the SABC back in 1996, the first thing I remember doing was looking for old friends, and at that stage there was a site called SAreunited, where I managed to get in touch with some old school friends.
Welcome 2004 and the birth of Facebook, which is now 13 years ago and has made Mark Zuckerburg into a multi billionaire. I must say Facebook has been the most wonderful internet web site to find old friends that had moved away and you had lost touch with. I always consider someone a friend regardless of what has happened in the past, however when my husband started using facebook he did make me realize that Facebook is not always "real".
He would say, this guy couldn't give me the time of day at school, so why does he want to be my friend on Facebook? and I realized, yea a whole heap of my "facebook friends" didn't want to know me at school, in some cases they bullied me.
A lot of people will only post good stuff on Facebook, they never tell you about the hardships they have been through, and I guess people don't really want to know. For instance, you don't want to know that the guy in your class you thought was so nice, actually beat up his girlfriend.
And if you are destitute, don't ask for help from your facebook friends, because they wouldn't give you brass farthing. I sometimes wonder why I keep up my profile on Facebook, but I guess it is like anything you don't want to lose touch again with those you have found, but is it really that important?
Are we just nosey individuals wanting to know about everyone's lives? And do we really know the people we make friends with? .... I don't think so!!!! I have proved this, I created a ficticious Facebook profile, with a ficticious name but with Genuine schools and universities, I then requessted about 100 people to become my friend, I even had a profile photo - only 1 person out of all of them asked the question - "Where do you know me from?", the rest just blindly accepted my friend request! So here I am a complete stranger to you, and yet you are sharing all your personal information with me, not very safe is it!
So I guess now you will be a lot more careful on who you choose to be Facebook Friends with! Right?
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