Every day I am emerged in the digital world.
I watch TV.
I watch videos on YouTube.
I text my friends.
I play mini-games with my Smartphone.
I download songs from the Internet.
And now, I “write”blog.
However, the digital media that I used most is definitely Facebook!
It seems that everyone is addicted to Facebook nowadays. Facebook is believed to be the most popular, widely used and powerful social website in the world. Even a primary school student, a seventy-year-old man or even the Chief Executive has a Facebook account. If I don’t visit the Facebook at least once a day, I will feel like being disconnected with the world. What’s so good about Facebook is that after adding the person, you don’t even need to have any interaction with the person but you can know everything about him/ her by reading through his/ her profile page. You can find out if he has a girlfriend, what kind of friends does he has, where he has been to last weekend, etc. You can also create an event to invite friends to join or share funny quiz, links, notes and photos with your friends. You can chat with your friends instantly if he is online, you can join a fans group to get the latest information and you can play mini-games with friends. There is far too much information you could find out about a person on Facebook than you can imagine.
People use very casual, informal and spoken discourse on Facebook as if they are just chatting with friends face-to-face. People could give comments on anyone’s status or links freely and these comments do not have to be necessarily related. Correct grammar is not so important at all as long as it is understandable.
Since Facebook is so popular, powerful and I use it every day, I would really love to learn and discover more about different kinds of digital media through this course.
Finally I would like to share with you all a funny video clip about Facebook.
Hope you enjoy it~
Finally I would like to share with you all a funny video clip about Facebook.
Hope you enjoy it~
Hey Maggie, I agree with you sooo much! Facebook is amazing, I can find my classmates in kindergarten, primary school, some of which I lost their contact information like tel. no., and don't know how to reconnect with them, which upset me for a long time. Luckily, Facebook made such a miracle, we "Friend" each other now...haa!! Also, Facebook is a great platform to dig secret. =P
ReplyDeleteWhat you said are so true. You still remember how we reacted when we all heard that there was so wifi in oz? That meant we couldn't surf the internet anymore!!!! Luckily, we could use it finally :D Just like you, I would feel like being isolated from the world if I don't use computer..especially not visiting Facebook..Talking about Fb, it is a good platform for social networking but I dislike my secrets or privacy being exposed or invaded sometimes. :P
ReplyDeleteHi Maggie, in my opinion, writing dairy is now no longer a personal and private event due to the technological advancement of electronic dairy services, facebook, it is now a published stories book for creating an ideal identity using languages and graphics; it is also a tool to socialize and ratify in-group identities.
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