The article Be Who You Want To be was very interesting to me. It is amazing how a simple website is such a big source of communication. Keeping in touch with relatives and friends from high school is now easier then ever. A single click and you can find out what a person has been up to for that week. Status updates literally take you into the minds of people. You see what people are doing and what they are thinking. That is of course of you display this information on facebook. Keeping everything about your life a secret will be extremely hard to do on facebook but can be done to an extent. I personally never make status updates. I never had an interest for displying what I am thinking at any given moment. I rarely comment on peoples walls either and if I do receive a message for some reason I don't often reply. I enjoy the social network i provides but me as an individual I am very "to myself". Oddly enough facebook does cater to those people as well. I can talk to people to messages which only the people I wish to see can see or I can talk on fb chat which is an instant messaging system.
A certain topic that Be Who You Want To be Went over that caught my eye was profile pictures. In communications the nonverbal communication is huge. Gestures can portray things faster then if said. Pictures on Facebook are the new nonverbal communication. A picture can show your interests and your dislikes. No words need to be said or discussions held ,all that needs to be done is taking a look at a picture. Like they say " a picture is worth a thousand words".
I too rarely post on fb and the last status update I made was a year ago. Really, everyone I know is really into it, and checks on iphone constantly. I dont have internet on my phone which I feel is a huge reason why I am not addicted to fb. Wow, I loved that you referenced non-verbal communication and photos becom ing the new way to say something without saying it. Are you in the mom-verbal...lol I was going to delete but decided to just correct NON-verbal comm class? It is great that you took the topic a bit further I agree with you that a picture is worth a thousand words. It could also be worth only a few :)
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