My observation on Facebook (96540333 Jennifer)

Years ago, I’ve been invited by a foreign friend to join Facebook, while I was addicted to msn. Therefore, I put Facebook aside for long. No matter I like Facebook or not at that time, it’s now growing fast in Taiwan. Never had I imagined that I would go on Facebook several times a week for the application: Mahjong today.

Personally, I think Facebook is totally cool. I love it recently. You know why, it’s superb convenient in interacting with my friends. Its amazing innovation in attracting everyone succeeds worldwide. However, its success arouses a question to me: how could it be so popular?
First, it’s unnecessary to spend a long period to develop your role in games which means you, maybe feeling almost no regret, can drop the game whenever you like. On the other hand, those games are intriguing indeed.
Second, your status and recent activities will be updated. Hence, friends will sometimes see a lot of things about you which is a way to cultivate your friendship. Is it difficult to maintain your friendship with friends you like? No, with the applications on Facebook, it’s not hard to maintain your friendship at all.
Third, it spread as “F” virus; anyone who is infected will usually infect the next friend. Facebook creates a chain that enrolls you and your friends. Seeing your friends all infected by “F” virus, will you not use it? For me, perhaps I’ll also follow the trend.
Not exaggeratedly, I even had to added “Facebook” into my Office Word in order to make Microsoft recognize this newly hit in Taiwan. So powerful a software producer as Microsoft has to yield to this new hit. In reality, Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. Who can resist this Facebook trend? I’m afraid few can say no to this interesting phenomenon.
Unlike others, I played Mahjong a lot these days. What’s more, I even found my friends whom I seldom chat with played the Mahjong more often than me. Probably I could talk to her about Mahjong so that our friendship would grow faster than ever. You see, a seemingly harmless application connects me and a distant friend. In this process, the application on Facebook contributes most. Shall I thank Facebook? Maybe. Is Facebook really no harm? I doubt it.
How realistic our friendship is? Don’t I worry about its drawbacks? Will the side effect hurt me some day? let’s see another example here.
One of my friends spends her whole summer vacation on psychological tests, Mahjong, Happy Farm, etc. (those are all popular applications on Facebook!). Spending two months on those relaxing games sound charming, but she sets up her mind to abandon all she had gained at the beginning of this semester. Why is it? She regrets for the precious two months she had wasted.
Will I do something regret as what she has done due to the application, Mahjong? Probably not. Because of her demonstration, I believe that I would think twice before I devote my time to a particular application.