Anyway, I recall that the second lecture was about social networking sites(SNS, kinda remind me of the SNES console, but that's another story for another time). We were shown an interesting, albeit slightly disturbing video about social networking wars. I shall paste the link here, just for readers' convenience.
Well, now, putting that video aside, let's talk about SNS.
Pretty much most of the world with access to the internet has been drawn into the SNS craze (MySpace, Facebook, etc). I remember way back in my lower secondary school days, when Friendster was The BOMB. Every one of my classmates would ask the other, if they had a Friendster account. Back then, SNS were lean, all you could do was to upload photos, write comments on your friends' profiles, or send private messages. To top it off, the user inteface was a boring grey/white color scheme *Yawn* just thinking about it makes me feel sleepy. I didn't really bother to do up my Friendster profile, since I didn't feel like it was interesting enough anyway. I'd be surprised if I can even remember my log-in details!
In contrast, Facebook will definitely be more successful than Friendster ever will (Sorry, Friendster). Sure, FB has been undergoing some crappy 'upgrading' of their user interface, but overall the site seems much more interesting than Friendster. You can invite your friends to events, share videos, buy/sell items, heck, it's even packed with game applications for the no-life users (Mafia Wars, in particular)!
However, I think that SNSes aren't the only ways in which we can expand our social network in this digital age.
Enter the Mass Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG)
In these games, users are not only able to interact with the other players in their 'worlds', also termed 'servers', they are also able to interact with the environment. Not bad at all, I must say.
Warning: Excessive social networking might affect your irl social life. For the lingo illiterate, irl stands for 'in real life'.
To end this post, here's an interesting video of The World of Warcraft (WoW).
I'mma firin' my fireball! :D
No comments:
Post a Comment