Week 7

It's amazing how addicted one can get to on-line social networking.
Before i would never of even considered creating a myspace account or a hi-5 account or even a facebook account for that matter.
The only reason i did create a hi-5 account was because my sister had one and i realised all my friends and cousins were on their, and i would find both my sister and brother who are both younger than me constantly online checking their hi-5 accounts.
So, i thought I'd be cool and create an account too. Well, not to be cool. Obviously.
For a long time i was pretty addicted to that, but then i realised that it wasn't something that i found particularly interesting as i found that anonymous people, and total strangers could view my profile and pictures, and would leave messages, that sometimes could get inappropriate.
However, between this period i also got a request from a friend to join myspace, which i joined eventually. I never actually used it but decided to put up 1 picture of me only. I also found that this was a bit like hi-5 in the sense that people could view my profile, and therefore never really signed in.

The fact that total strangers could actually view my pictures etc, kind of put me off, and therefore i have not logged into either myspace or hi-5 account... and therefore i am going to be deleting those soon! When i actually get around to it that is.
Then came along facebook, which initially i thought to be the same thing as hi-5 and myspace, but when i started seeing my old friends from primary school and secondary school on there, i decided to create an account. I found that i felt much more comfortable with it as it allows you to have certain restrictions for people who can and can't view your profile. Wow i quite like that!
I can choose who can view my pictures and who can't, so i like the fact that i have more control over my own identity and who can view it.

However, it is freaking me out in the sense that i am actually logging onto facebook more than just once in a day, sometimes 3 times a day! Which i find unacceptable! I have more important things to do like assignments, but i still find more time to check out comments and messages on my facebook, oh and the friend requests that come now and then from old mates!
I can now sort of understand how easy it is to get addicted to online social networking. Sometimes it can be an easier way to keep in touch, although i find it more appropriate to just call and speak to someone over the phone...but i find myself doing that a lot less now.
Hmm, what does that say about me?