At an instant, I bet most of you would say Facebook, MSN, Youtube,blog and the list goes on and on and on.
As much as the Internet is playing a vital role in this modern and high tech world especially in our daily life, we should always utilise it well and not misused it. Apart for work, majority of us would surf the net as a form of leisure entertainment only. Take for example Facebook alone. What do you often do in it? Play games, take various quizzes so that we can understand or know ourselves better..hmm really? yes and no.
Facebook seems to be a combination of several website elements into 1 - it allows you to find friends, add photos and videos,blog, play games, create own animals and even babies or other creations and interestingly, interact with people using various mode such as poking or sending them all kinds of things be it a growing gift, hatching egg and even ghosts.Hah!
Above all these mentioned, I believe that its ultimate or bottomline purpose is simply to firstly,SHARE - your interests,events/occasions/happenings through photos and videos, thoughts through blogging and most importantly, comments, useful comments from various,unique own perspectives. Thus, this then leads to second, NETWORKING.
Another popular site is definitely YouTube, or also known as the online jukebox. Again, do you just look for music videos or songs in there? If you need any inspiration, ideas or "how-to" questions, it is all in there! From how to put on a face eyelash to how to fix a guitar string or inspirations for party makeup/facepaint, ideas to srapbook. Just mention it. You too can share your own videos, or thoughts by commenting on others.
And sharing comes in all sorts of things. Furthermore, most sites has incorporated sharing tools and one of them is facebook. Sites from the news,videos from youtube and many others.
However, I realised that we Asians tend to be less outspoken and rather keep quiet and refrain from commenting anything in fear of saying the wrong thing and the Westerns noticed that prominently. I thought that's quite a shame. Why afraid what others might think of what you have just said or asked? Its either we are shy or we have low or no self confidence to do what we want unless we are in our comfort zone(eg.commenting just on ur close friends) and
thats the reason what the Internet is for, especially for the timid ones out there. We just see your face or name and whatever you say/comment often starts and end just there. It is all virtual.
It might be the real you or less like the real you. A quiet person in reality might be someone more outspoken in the virtual or cyber world.
So make use of all the people in your friends list be it in facebook or friendster,etc and talk to them. Otherwise, whats the use of adding but ignoring them? I wonder to myself too.LOL.