Lab+4

CCT205 Lab 4 Daniel Wilkinson


 * Connected and disconnected?**

I agree that social networking sites such as facebook or twitter maintain connections as well having the user completely disconnected. Sure, such sites allow users to keep up with friends and acquaintances extremely well. Facebook alone has allowed me to keep connected with contacts in Singapore, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, New York, Paris, London just to name a few cities. With the advent of various social networking sites I dont know if I would still be in touch with the various people that I am in now. So on a global or international perspective, I do believe that social networking sites do a great job in keeping people connected.

At the same time I have to agree that social networking sites keep a lot of users disconnected, especially on a more local scale. The constant accumulation of various mutual friends and acquaintances adds nothing to our social experience as in reality a lot of these "connections" are never really kept. Many such contacts are just a number on a website meaning nothing to the user.