2010年1月5日 星期二

My observation of Facebook

My observation of Facebook
96540325 Angela Chen
Nowadays, Facebook has become one of the popular trends in Taiwan. For many people, the first thing to do when they turn on the computers is to surf on the internet, connecting to the Facebook website, checking if there are something new there. Once they open the Facebook website, it must cost a lot of struggle to come back to the reality because there are countless interesting things on Facebook. Not only you can run a farm, raise many kinds of pets, play mahjong and card games, but you can join your idol’s Facebook website and leave the comment and message. No wonder some people would rather take the adventure to surf on the Facebook on working time.
Although Facebook has founded since 2004, most people in Taiwan knew this website until 2009 because some Chinese version games started to show up. One of the sprit of Facebook is let you find your old friends you have lost for many years. You can type his or her name to search or check your friends list if there are common friends you might know. Through the friends list, you also can meet many kinds of friends who speak different languages in the world. It is interesting to post message or feeling on personal wall because your friends can give you the comment back and improve the friendship if you have no time to talk in reality. What’s more, you can dress what your pets wear, clean the house, take pictures, and post the pictures on your personal wall. Thus, through these games, you can release the pressure in reality.
No matter how abundant content of Facebook attracted people, there are still some people started to refuse to surf on it. First, your privacy might be exposed on Facebook which you don’t want some people to know. Second, the Facebook website has been intruded many times by hikers and leave the virus, and it also cause the MSN to get the virus. The worst is the Facebook website builders hasn’t think of any effective ways to solve the problem or any warns to remind users these virus. I think if the Facebook want to run the website well and always attract people to join, they need to face the problems which are responded by users.

2009年11月16日 星期一

My observation toward face book

My observation toward face book
My first time to contact face book is the time when I accompanied my friend in the cyber café. We applied for access to it and then played the game called “happy farm”. After a while, I felt bored with it. Therefore, I didn’t know why it is so popular at that time.
For now, I see more and more people around me begin using face book as the way to communicate. I think there are several causes to make the force of its popularity spread quickly. The First is through propaganda of media like the quite a few news related to it recently. The second is by word of mouth among young people. The third is its integrated function because it includes the functions of blog, msn and online game etc. by the way, I even heard that my friend it can be used to search your long lost contact friends. There are many functions integrated together, no wander the number of users increase quickly and worldwide.
Although it has been so popular in Taiwan nowadays, it can only arouse not much interest to me. That’s because I don’t want to waste my time to give it much attention. Therefore, for me I prefer to know it about some basic part of it which I consider useful rather than the whole function. To tell the truth, I’m also afraid to addict to it.

by Eric

2009年11月15日 星期日

My Observation on Facebook

I find one word that represents Facebook is community. When I look up the word online, it means a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. The online community of Facebook is relatively different from its meaning. Its users are people from all over the world, who have varied cultural and historical background. It means that you can make foreign friends on Facebook. It helps a lot for English majors, because it is always good for us to know people from different countries and learn their valuable cultures and language. It provides a plaform for people to make friends.

Some of the games on Facebook share the same function as communities. You can develop friendship from the games by visiting your friends’ place, solving random events, and giving away gifts. People can know more about you through the psychological tests which you have done.

Its influence is so tremendous that some companies use Facebook as a way to gain fame and to make profits. Take the just-released movie, 2012, as an example. It has advertisements on some websites. I clicked it and played a small game concerning the theme of the movie. After playing it, it asked if I wanted to post the result on Facebook. By doing so, other people might see the message and, thus, provoke their interest towards the movie. Furthermore, they might want to go to the movies and spend their money. The goal of the company achieves.

By using Facebook, you can reach the world.

96540303 Ivy
Living in this modern society, we all have the experience surfing on the internet. Most of us have our own personal blog like wretchcc, pchome, and facebook, and we all use it to post our daily pictures, write down our feeling, and connect our life with others. But few of us know that these kinds of web blog will lead our life into a chaos, and lazy one. Nowadays, facebook is the latest and the most popular blog in the world. There are thousands of people consider it as an essential, important and basic requirement in their life. They spend most of their time on playing game, talking to others, viewing the pictures, and typing their paragraphs. It’s not just such of wasting time, but wasting life. People will addict to it. They will sit in front of the computer all day long and do nothing, and that will cause a serious consequence. Moreover, facebook is a virtual platform which connects the world into a small web. People can make friends with anyone on this planet, but there is a safety problem. People may meet someone that they don’t even fully understand, and they may be cheated or kidnapped by the stranger. Besides, the information on the internet is not reliable. People may be fooled or deceived by the cheated group, and people may lose their money or life because of it. I am not saying that facebook or others kinds of blog is useless. It still brings us the convenience in our life, but I believe we should not addict to it. Many people are too crazy about it; they should learn how to use it in a right way.

95540326 Gary

My observation on Facebook by 96540332 Mark

My observation on Facebook

4E3 96540332 Mark

No one will doubt that Facebook is one of the most popular stuffs in Taiwan or even in the whole world. As it is a trend now, I don’t think there is any shortage to use it; especially it is fun and has lots of functions.

Before, we usually interact with our friends on the MSN or the Noname(無名). For MSN, we need to have people’s accounts to talk with them, which means that it is impossible to talk with people we do not know. Also for Noname, it is hard to meet more new friends. But for Facebook, after I leave a message on my friend’s website, both of my friends and my friend’s friends can see the message. It is not one to one anymore. It is one to many now.

Because of Facebook, I find people, who have the same interests, baseball. What is unique for Facebook is that we can see people’s headshot. On other’s websites, we can only see people’s nickname. We won’t know anything about the person. But from the picture, at least, we can see his appearance and know more about one person. If two people have the same interests and they think each other’s appearance is acceptable, it is possible for them to be together, or at least to be friends. It is always good to find someone who has the same interests, isn’t it?

Another function that Facebook has is to become someone’s fan. This one is also pretty good. Because of Facebook, I get to know more about Roger Federer, the number one in tennis. From Facebook, we can see the message that he leaves so that we can know what he is doing recently or what his feeling is. It makes me feel that the distance between us is not so big anyomore.

For the small games part, instead of saying that those games are really interesting, I would say that those games give people the feeling of belonging. In our life, we keep finding where we belong to, like our family, one of the members of a school, a club, group, and so on. It makes us feel safe and makes us clearly know that we are somebody, not nobody. Also, playing a small game is a habit. For example, I will try to get up early to harvest my plants in the happy harvest in the morning. I don’t think that I am addicted to it. It is just a habit. Another kind of small game is metal tests. Of course, some of the results are accurate and it makes us to know ourselves better. Also, it is interesting to test have all kinds of questions, especially questions that I haven’t think of, like“What kind of stuff will happen to me in this month?” Although most of the result are just nonsense, it is fun.

Although we can communicate and have contact with others on the Facebook, which is very convenient, it makes me more aware of the importance of face-to-face interaction. Facebook is just a tool. It is not everything.

My observation on Facebook

There is an epidemic phenomenon exclusively these two years that we see people login Facebook, the soaring popular social-networking website, and play games or whatever function this website provides in workplace or in any places that have access to it. Nowadays, it is a must that you have your own Facebook account or you may be regarded as obsolete or even weird. And yet, how does this website has such influential impact on people? For what reasons that people were thoroughly conquered by this website and cannot live without it? My reasoning is as follows.
This website, on the one hand, includes all the functions people living in the twenty-first century demand—receiving entertainment, communication and photo storage space. Facebook includes a variety of short quizzes and intriguing games like Happy Farm, Animal Paradise, Happy Aquarium, etc., which furnishes the amusement as well as the relief from the stress. Also, on this particular website, users are capable of chatting or leaving messages to their friends around the globe. One special feature of the application is that you can search friends all over the world, no matter disconnected friends you met long time ago or just seconds before as long as you have got their names, you are able to reunite or regain your relationship simply through clicking a few buttons. You may even receive suggested mutual friends through the linkage among the network.
For me, just like its slogan indicates that “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life,” this website is like a condensed electronic global village. In here, people connect to individuals around the world or interact with friends through games and other applications. People, in other words, get in touch with their friends, families, classmates, colleges, or any fellow associate within their own customized community. Why would anyone ever deny such conveniently designed services that simply require a few efforts? In addiction, the website renders the function of uploading unlimited photos, which is another reason for the dramatic proliferation. The present people have the craze to record everything happens in their lives through taking photos, and Facebook coincidently provide an off-the-rack platform for them to rest. Not only can users enjoy this handy function, they can also add tags and put comments on their friends' photos.
Within this abridged community, on the other hand, the sense of give and take—the reciprocal—is triggered. When you give something to your friend, you may be further given another one in return. To take the calendar application for an example, you can add your friends’ birthday to your calendar and vise versa or when you are given gift, the website will automatically suggest that you present a gift in return. The most convincing facts for the proliferation of Facebook lies in the fact that those functions mentioned above are all on a user-friendly basis that people won’t be bothered when operating. For this reason, Facebook can maintain those who have subscribed as well as draw those who have not subscribed that have been pitched by those subscribers.
With its fruitful enticing functions, Facebook successfully captivates the public. And in response to the dramatic proliferation of the Facebook phenomenon, chances are that the Facebook will begin to charge fees for users in the years to come. And some powerful Internet service provider like Yahoo will possibly acquire it like it does to other mushrooming website on the Internet .

95540456 Charlene

My observation on Face book by 96540453 ALEX

After my observing the face book, I found it quite interesting. With the convenience of face book, I could log on to my friends blog spontaneously when ever I want, and meet new acquaintances and strangers by chance. Different age, social back ground, occupation or even gender can share the same platform without boundary. Furthermore, you could write your own perspective toward life or anything you feel jovial, unpleasant, or anything you would want to let off. You could find the love of your life or the most compatible friend you desire. Face book it’s like a medicine that you can get addicted easily, numerous of my friends couldn’t last a day without face book; it infiltrated your mind and your soul. Also, face book provides myriads of fun games. According to a news I saw recently, white-collar workers has been playing Happy farm(FACEBOOK GAMES) when they are still at work, therefore delays the process of their working hours. Another news is that, a men in china committed a larceny on stealing his neighbor’s vegetable, after the arrest he said he was too indulging to the game resulted to this crime. This phenomenon is definitely not what face book is meant for. Why face book has become the most popular personal blog on web? In my opinion, it’s because of it’s facilitation on centralizing all of your friends, or a friend of friend on web to become acquainted just by a simple click. You can be astonished and amused by how a stranger can have a mutual friend of yours and also get to know him/her through your own friend.