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Recent grad on "Fakebook"
A recent Dartmouth graduate sends up Facebook, saying that most young users are comfortable with social networking in person already, so they input false information for fun:
Facebook administrators have since exiled at least the flagrantly fake profiles, the Greta Garbos and the I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butters, in an effort to have the site grow up from a farce into the serious social networking tool promised to its new adult users, who earnestly type in their actual personal information and precisely label everyone they know as former co-workers or current colleagues, family members or former lovers.
But does this more reverent incarnation of Facebook actually enrich adult relationships? What do these constellations of work colleagues and long-lost friends amount to? An online office mixer? A reunion with that one other guy from your high school who has a Facebook profile? Oh! You get to see pictures of your former college sweetheart’s family!
The dartmouth graduate has quite a negative view of the changing world in which we live ie onling communities.
Not everyone uses FaceBook negatively - some of us use it to stay in touch with friends in other states, countries and well, to just stay in touch because we're home minding the kids!!
Happy to discuss online or in person (i can actually do both) however I would need to travel across the globe to do that as I live in Adelaide South Australia.
The purpose of having these people on facebook is simply to network. Having graduated college a year ago I know the importance of networking. You never know who will be able to give you a hand when you need it.
Here is an example. I struggled with different jobs coming out of college and could not find something that made me happy. My future father in law Chris had a friend at Edward Jones named Rob. Rob worked for Chris at his body shop so they were close. Chris called him up one day and asked Rob if he could help me get a job at Edward Jones. Well Rob was able to and I have been there for over 5 months now and absolutley love it. I got the job though not necessarily becuase of my degree, or my work experience ( though neither hurt to have either ) but because of who I knew. Last year there were only 330 new jobs at Edward Jones but there were 458,169 applicants according to fortune magazine. I was able to break from the crowd all because of networking. That is why it is so important.