Communicating With Friends And Family

When communicating with friends and family it's often more convenient to write a quick email, post a myspace comment or write on their facebook wall. We all get busy so when these technologies came along it became a lot easier to keep in touch with everyone. This is all very well but what ever happened to sitting down to write a letter or better yet sitting down in person to spin a yarn? Shock Horror! I must admit I am one of the 100 million people who uses MySpace as means of communicating with friends and especially family overseas but you hear of these kids who spend every waking our on these sites. They're on there posting photos of themselves to see how many comments they can get, or adding thousands of random people to say that they have this many friends. It's a bit sad that these kids look for confidence boosts and so called "friends" in this way.

There is a huge difference to knowing someone on the web and really knowing someone in person. These people may not even be who they say they are which can be a dangerous aspect to these sites. I personally don't add random people who I haven't met in person and this is a privacy thing for me. I use myspace to keep in contact with my friends from not only my school but other schools also. Most importantly though it allows me to keep in contact with my beautiful family in Canada.

I caved in to the Myspace peer pressure at the end of 2006 and I've been happy with it so far. I was influenced to join the "MySpace team" because everyone was doing it- although I put up a good fight in the begining. Privacy has not been an issue for me using MySpace because I'm smart about it. My profile is private, I accept adds and add people myself only if I know them and I don't put any personal details such as my phone number or address. These new communication technologies have many advantages and disadvantages - it all depends on how you use it.

I would much rather socialise with friends at a bbq with a few bevvies and a mean feed but MySpace does allow me to organise such an event :)