Prompt # 2

Well just to get to the promt because I am devastatingly tired…..YAWN. I have 246 friends and I love each and every one of them lol. My friends are in a lot of networks. From music to work to school they do it all. I am in school based networks I think. I am what yu call a facebook baby (I made it three or four months ago I think). Most of my friends have over 100 friends the most I saw was like 600 something…..my eyes got wide I was like, “ who really knows six hundred people, besides a college professor??” My networks are lesser than their because I am school based they are more social so as I mature through the facebook life I will gain more strong networks. The groups I am in make me feel great like I am doing my part to make the U of I world go round. I made a friend on like my second day at the U of I and I am like # three in their top friends…..o how sweet the love is.

Journal # 2

Today i got on facebook early like around 10:30. I don't know what came over me but I was really intrigued by this one person, so I decide to message them. I felt weird and so did they but in due time it settled and now we are texting. I'm really happy today I don’t know why though. I did however log off for a bit and then log back on just to swept into the facebook zone. I was on for like 3 hours straight all while I was doing homework I while talking to friends from back home and texting at the same time. Facebook is like a social disease that antibiotics just can’t cure lol. I also was able to vent while I was on facebook because lately school has been kicking my butt and its not pretty. But after LONG conversations and comments of hope I feel even better, thus I DID AND FINISHED MOST OF MY HOMEWORK. And with this I am complete.

Journal #2

I have actually really enjoyed facebook this week, nobody that I didn't want to talk to messaged me and I also had some pretty sweet conversations with people I didn't think I would get to talk to for a very long time. Oh the power of networking, and the ties that bind. That made me happy, not to mention I finally got to be friends with some of the people here at Allen Hall that I have trying to find on facebook for a while. Facebook has also been very helpful to me and my friends in trying to judge the Allen Hall waffle competition, we post the pics and people vote for their favorite waffle, although people haven't really been voting online, just looking at the pics and then telling us in person, but that's okay. The word got out because of facebook. Although there was one bad thing, Farmville requests are back!! I thought I got rid of that abomination, it ruled my life for a while and I am determined never to let it happen again.

But yeah I guess that's my rant for the week.

Prompt #2

Hey all,

Sorry this is so late.

For this weeks prompt I would like you to spy on your friends :) I have a series of questions, feel free to dig deeply into all of these:

How many friends do you have? What networks are they in? What networks are you in? How many friends do your friends have? Is your network inherently "better" than theirs? Do your "group" memberships make you feel more a part of something?

Again as always this is due by 1pm on Monday September14.

Journal #2

On Facebook this week I've actually been able to upload pictures into an album. I've never done this before for various reasons, but it's so nice to have albums with my friends pictures in them! I've had a camera for the past year, and have taken over 600 pictures on it, but this is the first time I have even dumped them all on a computer much less made a facebook album. My goal is to make FB albums of all of my pictures and then keep up with it through out the year. I would also just like to take more pictures of my life. I love being able to go on FB and see myself and my friends in such an easy manner, and I would like to return the favor for the rest of my friends. Facebook albums were terribly convenient when I was trying to find pictures to put on my wall, all I had to do was scroll through some of my friends' albums to find classic memories. I love how easy it is to share pictures on FB. Those are my thoughts on Facebook for this week.

Journal #1 September 8

Well lets see....I have been on facebook for the past few hours and I don't know why I am so hooked. I have been on the site and I am like wow all this fun stuff and a lot of new friends and people to talk to. I mostly communicate with my friends but as of lately I've been moving along to people I didn't even know I had as friends. I don't know how you guys' facebooking experiences are but mine are somewhat weird. I get random invites from people who seem to know me, but the feeling is most likely not mutual. But I just add them and the case is solved, because I generally get a good answer as to how they know I exist and who they know me from. I only log onto to facebook from two locations; my iPhone and my laptop. I log on at random moments even if I don't have messages or comments I still find a way to make it new and interesting. It can be times when I am doing online homework and the phrase or name or whatever you wanna call it "facebook" bounces around in my mind and I just cannot stop thinking about it. The reason why I even devote my time to facebook is because I like it. Its like an online world where you can be free to express who you are and restrict what people may see. In real life you can restrict what others may see, but to a certain extent. I guess the privacy, independence, and free leisure is what attracts me.......that and the fact you can poke people lol.

Journal 1, August 31

Hello friends.

I logged onto facebook today mostly to find and friend a lot of the new freshmen I've been meeting. I have a leadership position in an RSO on campus and as part of our outreach to new members we especially focus on welcoming freshmen and practicing hospitality. This year someone made the observation that (especially with younger people) friending on facebook can be a form of "technological hospitality." I think there's some validity to this and it shows how important facebook has become to our culture, especially to high school and college students. It's an interesting conversation.

I also had one of my close friends break up with his girlfriend so he had to change the status of his relationship on facebook. So of course a few people commented on it. That's so stupid, I really don't like that...but at the same time why has the fb status of a relationship become such a big deal to us? Wtf.

Greg