Using New Communications Technologies

I often communicate with people through new communication technologies. Prior to Facebook, I used Myspace and prior to that I would often chat to my friends on Msn. Even before that I can remember using things like ICQ. Out of all of these communication technologies I only use Facebook now. The others have seemed to phase out of my life. I distinctly remember the shift from Myspace to Facebook. The other transitions were more gradual. I changed from Myspace to Facebook mainly because all of my friends had Facebook so it was the place to hangout in Cyberspace.

I have had a Facebook account now for just over a year and my neglected Myspace account would be about three years old. I cannot actually remember how or why I jumped onto Mysapce to begin with. It was possibly influence from friends. I wonder if I had never entered into the Myspace revolution,would I have started using Facebook? Possibly not. So Myspace was useful for something in my current cyber socialising life. I communicate with most of my friends on Facebook regualrly and have broardened my social networks by becoming friends with friends of friends and so on. Sites like Facebook allow you to network with people on a much wider scale than traditionally or physically. It is more accessible, which is no wonder it is so popular today.

I am not constantly thinking about privacy issues when using Facebook, but the thought does linger in the back of my mind. I am sensible in my use of the social networking site and have deleted or blocked people who I was suspicious of. There is a risk in using the site and I am aware of that. Though, there is a risk asscociated with most things in life. Driving on the road could be seen as being more risky than chatting to friends on Facebook. I, personally, only talk to my friends whom I already knew prior to facebook. I don't pursue cyber relatioships with random people. The only instance of this would be if they were a friend of a friend. Even still I probably wouldn't talk to them a whole lot.