Thoughts to the (boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. “Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11, 2007. & Beer, D., “Social network(ing) sites.revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13 (2008): 523) reading:
Danah m. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison have evaluated many different types of social network sites in the reading. For some people, they may register most of them to keep up with their different social networks either in this visual network or in the real life. So, I was wondering that people who use bloggers to record their daily life and share their experiences on this free platform instead of handwriting. Actually, I would say that I am kind of proud of myself that I have still kept the habits of writing dairy in my pink little notebooks every night since I was in high school. According to Jason R (2006) in Blogging for fame and fortune, he declares that “the process of creating and publishing a blog is known as blogging.” Therefore, the bloggers which could generally being defined as a kind of writers who write articles to share their own ideas, experiences or even their own stories (novels for example) on line for some purposes. They conveyed their ideas on the Internet by using such as blogger.com, my space, or yahoo blog…etc. In the book I have read recently, who are the bloggers? (Nate Anderson,2006), he suggested that “with the numbers of blogs doubling every 5.5 months, Pew took a close look at the 12 million US bloggers to find out what makes them tick. The result is "a portrait of the Internet's new storytellers" that paints a familiar picture.” This is quite interesting point that I would like to address. Generally, most of bloggers write about their own "life and experiences," Furthermore, they could also define as celebrities who suddenly become famous in this visual world and attract lots of readers who are interested in it by keeping post articles regularly. However, to some extent, technology plays a very important role to these bloggers who may have to express something anytime and anywhere. It actually gives them a brand new space and a sharing world to keep diary in different ways.
It is kind of embarrassing to say that when I was using the social networking sites, sometimes I just want to get noticed to whomever. So, I prefer to say that not only blogger but people who use SNS may be have some characteristics that they are eager to be seen and realized, be read and heard, be concerned, or perhaps be well-known. I found that it is intriguing to quote from Herman Melville who was an American novelist, might be illustrated one of the the perfect description concerned with SNS users:
"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
So, from the psychology point of view, not only bloggers, let’s say, people who use social networking sites may be kind of shallow via this "invisible threads" and "sympathetic fibers." They tend to be a lovely comfort of strangers. Like Raya wrote in her blog about the idea of watching someone as well as being watched in this platform. We could easily set up the privacy in facebook to avoid the friends you don’t really like to be with, for example, your boss, your teacher, or your parents. This is a controversial issue that are SNS (facebook, friendster, bloggers, or twitter) secure to everyone? They may bring us some entertainments and convenience, however, it is a great revolution which totally reverses the way people communicate with others, also the way that how we being ourselves in this visual world. One example has addressed in the United States, a female primary school teacher who is currently being fired by school because of “the unsuitable picture” on her facebook. It’s ridiculous that the picture is nothing but normal that you could see everywhere from your friends facebook. In her profile pictures, she’s just holding a glass of red wine in the restaurant with her friends. I mean, what’s wrong with that? However, when the parents saw that pictures, they suggested this teacher should be unemployed because she’s making a bad images to her students. in the readings, Danah m. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison also declared that some restrictions of using SNS, such as U.S. military banned soldiers from accessing Myspace, Canadian government prohibited employees from Facebook…etc. It reminds me of the period that everyone plays one of the applications called “Happy Farm” on facebook last year in Taiwan. The reason why they play it day and night is that if they don’t really take care of their farm, the plants, corns and livestock would die and you may lose money (money in virtual world). Thus, the users couldn’t concentrate on working even studying, at that moment; most of offices warns the employees and make the rules like: “Do not farming in office hour!!!” when the time that people always ask each other: “have you harvested yet?”
However, when almost whole world join facebook, China has been excluded because of the politics purpose. They are not allowed to discuss or share any opinions around the world because of the restrictions of speech statement, but one thing I would like to address is Chinese people do create the SNS called “people network”, which is exactly the same functions, applications and format as facebook to let only Chinese people use it. Isn’t’ it a dilemma for them to create the new system? In fact, no one will know who is whom when everyone seems to be a virtual individual who may try to being someone else on SNS while Danah m. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison raise the survey that 55% online teens have profiles, 66% of whom report that their profile is not visible to all Internet users of the teens with completely open profiles, 46% reported including at least some false information.
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