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Collegecandy.com: No Facebook=Social Suicide

Amee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:49:53 +0000

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I don’t trust people who aren’t on Facebook.

It’s weird, I know, but FB is like peanut butter and jelly: you must be some sort of freak if you’ve never tried it. (OK, or you have some severe allergy, but that doesn’t fit with my analogy so let’s move on.) Facebook is at the epicenter of our generation’s world, so anyone who isn’t on there is weird, right? I mean, how do you live without Facebook?

How do you learn about people?
See pictures?
Know what’s going on in your friends’ lives?!
Update everyone on your own life without tons and tons of phone calls?

But maybe I’m not so weird for feeling this way. Matthew Myron, an author who recently studied online privacy, has gone as far as saying that not being on Facebook is social suicide. ”Many people feel they have to be a part of Facebook to socialize. Such sites are the modern equivalent of a mobile phone. They have grown into fashion accessories and they are a must-have for people who don’t want to be social outcasts.”

Myron speaks mostly in regards to status updates and wall posts, but his point is even truer than he knows. When people have parties, they invite guests via Facebook. When people have birthdays, we send them messages (and are notified!) via Facebook. When people have anything to say, we say it all on Facebook.

And when someone doesn’t have Facebook, we think they are freaks hiding something.

Are those things even replacements for in-person chats or phone conversations? Is someone’s profile a fair way to judge them? Probably not, but that is how we roll in “generation me” and anyone who is not a part of that will be left behind and out of the know when it comes to weekend ragers.

We may not want to admit it, but Facebook is a huge part of (and maybe the basis of) our social lives in college. Not being on there might be worse for your social status than being “that girl” at a party or keeping your door closed the first week of freshman year. Or even being that annoying status updater who lets everyone know where they are at every possible second/puts up ambiguous statements that are just begging for attention. Ugh, those people are annoying.

But at least I can Facebook-stalk them.

Seriously, even my mom has FB. If you don’t, you barely exist to me.

What do you think?

Addicted to Sorority Life

Amee — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:00:30 +0000

SO, I recently joined this facebook game, Sorority Life and it is dead addictive. I am trying to tone it down a bit but I want to reach Level 40. SO i started this game about 5 days ago and on the first day I got to Level 12. I was soo impressed with myself, I played it 24/7 but then the game poses some limitations and time constraints where in order to maintain your cash level you MUST at least wait to get paid every hour with your job. If I kept on doing what I was constantly doing, I would have gon broke. SO my Burnlist Bid thingy is set to 235000 which is pretty high compared to people I have seen at my level. I guess now talking about Sorority life I see maybe I am sweating this game to much.. My techie is going to give me the Sims 2 and I simply can’t wait for that one. OMG is that all what I am going to be doing for the summer? Playing reality-type games? Hmmm, For my sake I hope not. I need to work out, probably head to a gym or do some extreme tennis and running…
I will say how that one goes.
So it rained awhile ago and my nephew saw it fitting to run in the rain screaming “rain rain rain”… – he is only 2
And I chickened out … So then I need to go take my normal shower… [haha- Normal shower...!!!]

ANTM tonight so I am looking forward to that one..
Greys Anatomy on Thursday…

Luckily I have those television shows to keep me occupied..

HAPPY BDAY CONVIC <3

sororitylife

FaceBreak

Amee — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:11:22 +0000

facebreak

To take a break from a particular productive activity (tradionally homework) to check your Facebook. Normally results in a non-productive hour.
Beth: Yes! We just completed the first 3 problems of our Chemistry homework!
Mary: Time for a facebreak!

Joe: I was in the library reading and decided to take a facebreak, next thing I knew it was midnight and I had got nothing done.
Billy: Fail.

2. facebreak

n. To take an extended break from Facebook … also facebreakation
Hey, I would’ve added you as a Top Friend, but I didn’t get your invite – I’m having a facebreak. Yeh. I’ve been on a facebreakation since August.

3. facebreak

The act of being broken up with on facebook.
I was going to break up with Pat in person, but I thought it’d be easier just to facebreak with him.

And so, 3 hours earlier I decided to take a Facebreak!! but I guess you cant withdraw from it right away and drastically.. Baby steps at a time…

Ackim sent me an article on MSNBC titled- Five reasons Why I took a Facebreak… I read it and laughed.. he thought that article would have been helpful to me… it was funny tho..

here isREASON 1:

No 1: The black hole

How many times have I told myself, I’m just going to sign in to Facebook for “a few minutes” … just need a quick fix … only to emerge two hours later, glassy-eyed, from the depths of this social networking bottomless pit, wondering where the time has gone.

When it comes to gobbling up the moments of our lives, Facebook is a black hole … siphoning away minutes, hours, days with its vortex-like pull. It starts innocently enough — someone asks to be your friend, and so you sign in to approve said friend request. But once you’ve signed in, Facebook has you in its clutches.

the other reasons basically deal with the guilt of adding someone or ignoring their request and also getting tagged in embarrassing photos.. I just wanted to share the 5th reason WHICH makes a lot of sense..

No. 5: You can check out …

All this talking about Facebook, and suddenly, I’m craving a peek at … Facebook. Just one, teeny-weeny little visit. A quick hit. I won’t stay long, I promise.

Wait. Whoa. What just happened? Oh, right, I just fell off the Facebook wagon … and lost two precious, productive hours of my life in the process.

Now that I’m back, I can tell you that in the five weeks I abstained from Facebook, I missed out on some important moments in my friends’ lives. One friend recently had a baby and he’s been keeping people up to date on his son’s arrival and the ensuing adorableness by using Facebook and Facebook alone, it seems. Meanwhile, old friends of mine came to town for a visit and then left, but I failed to connect with them because they tried to reach me via Facebook while I was taking my Facebreak. I haven’t seen them in a decade. Now, who knows when I’ll have another chance.

Which leads me to yet another reason I wish I’d never joined: Once you’ve checked into Hotel Facebook, you can check out any time you like … but you can never leave.

Amazingly THIS IS TRUE. You get so hooked unto it that you know about events on facebook.. you know who is out of the island ON FACEBOOK..
SAD but true!!