If you have ever asked me about my thesis (or other school-related report), or if you have read my other blog, you would know what Web 2.0 mean or things that are followed with "2.0" mean.
If you don't, I will tell you very quickly. It is the interactivity that is now enabled in several websites. The example of this technology is Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
In the beginning of my study, I was so excited to learn and discover things about this issue. I joined a lot of social network sites just to experiment how things work. Yet, I now feel that it is getting very annoying.
For instance on Facebook, you will see a lot of unnecessary updates that are none of your business, nor funny, nor interesting. Like shairng that you have just farted, or asking people opinÃon's about which food to eat, which activity he should do first. Gosh, it is beyond my expectation.
The comments are sometimes funny. I like when I post something and people leave nice, interesting, and humourous comments. It makes me laugh.
However, what I find so irritated these days are the way people react after reading an updated status, especially on Facebook (cos not many friends have Twitter account). When I posted something, they were freaking out. They buzzed me on YM, asking how I have been, what happened with me, and some sent me texts.
Okay, maybe it's fine. It proves that they care about me, right? But, publishing a nice quote from a film on Facebook? or tweeting a melancholic lyric from a favorite song? and they freaked out and asked hundreds questions about my life? I guess it's exaggerating. Isn't it?
What I found reaaally annoying is when people read something, either on my status or on my blog, and they were curious about my life, yet too coward to bluntly ask me - too coward to leave a comment or reply my tweet. Instead, they talk behind my back, they ask my boyfriend about our love life, and gossip about it.
These people are annoying. Why don't you ask yourself? If you don't dare to do that, then why are you even bothered to "reconfirm" this with someone else?
Yes, Web 2.0 has made us become a stalker. I am a stalker, too. I follow people on Twitter. I want to know how their lives are. I want to know their holiday pictures. But, if everything is so public right now, why don't you make your comment public, too? why should you be so afraid that you talk behind one's back or ask other people about it?
And I will follow the theory of social media/Web 2.0, to initiate interactivity. Thus, when you ask something, I would love to answer that.
Morale of the story: We are living in a transparent world. Eventually, your news will soon be discovered (whether you want it or not) - when you gossip someone, it will soon be discovered - and the person you gossip about will not be very happy.
Thus, I guess someone owes me an apology :)
If you don't, I will tell you very quickly. It is the interactivity that is now enabled in several websites. The example of this technology is Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
In the beginning of my study, I was so excited to learn and discover things about this issue. I joined a lot of social network sites just to experiment how things work. Yet, I now feel that it is getting very annoying.
For instance on Facebook, you will see a lot of unnecessary updates that are none of your business, nor funny, nor interesting. Like shairng that you have just farted, or asking people opinÃon's about which food to eat, which activity he should do first. Gosh, it is beyond my expectation.
The comments are sometimes funny. I like when I post something and people leave nice, interesting, and humourous comments. It makes me laugh.
However, what I find so irritated these days are the way people react after reading an updated status, especially on Facebook (cos not many friends have Twitter account). When I posted something, they were freaking out. They buzzed me on YM, asking how I have been, what happened with me, and some sent me texts.
Okay, maybe it's fine. It proves that they care about me, right? But, publishing a nice quote from a film on Facebook? or tweeting a melancholic lyric from a favorite song? and they freaked out and asked hundreds questions about my life? I guess it's exaggerating. Isn't it?
What I found reaaally annoying is when people read something, either on my status or on my blog, and they were curious about my life, yet too coward to bluntly ask me - too coward to leave a comment or reply my tweet. Instead, they talk behind my back, they ask my boyfriend about our love life, and gossip about it.
These people are annoying. Why don't you ask yourself? If you don't dare to do that, then why are you even bothered to "reconfirm" this with someone else?
Yes, Web 2.0 has made us become a stalker. I am a stalker, too. I follow people on Twitter. I want to know how their lives are. I want to know their holiday pictures. But, if everything is so public right now, why don't you make your comment public, too? why should you be so afraid that you talk behind one's back or ask other people about it?
And I will follow the theory of social media/Web 2.0, to initiate interactivity. Thus, when you ask something, I would love to answer that.
Morale of the story: We are living in a transparent world. Eventually, your news will soon be discovered (whether you want it or not) - when you gossip someone, it will soon be discovered - and the person you gossip about will not be very happy.
Thus, I guess someone owes me an apology :)
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