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Rachel Maresca
Issue date: 3/1/07 Section: Perspectives
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You load batteries into your digital camera, go out with your friends, take a ton of pictures, come home, upload them to your computer, and crop yourself out.
Sound Familiar?
Why do we obsess over the way we look in pictures each weekend? The answer is simply because most of us want the perfect facebook picture. You wouldn't want to be "tagged" in a picture you didn't like, would you?
What is it about this online network connecting so-called "friends" that turns college students into borderline "stalkers?"
"Facebook gives students so much access to other peoples personal information like never before. The tagged pictures are like looking at someone's personal photo album, and the news feed is like tracking every move a person makes within their social network," said Andi Coiro, junior, Youngstown Heights, N.Y.
News feed, a somewhat new addition to facebook, caused quite a stir when it first came out. Students were outraged to wake up one morning, check their facebook, and see that over night their entire life was splattered across every student's facebook "home page."
The news feed started off as something that students hated, but now it seems as though they rely on it as their source of information. It allows you to see who ended their two-year relationship to be able to list themselves as single. It shows who you accepted as a friend and what parties you'll be attending. Not to mention, who and what your mutual friends wrote on each other's wall, and who updated their profile picture all on the same page.
"I think anyone who has facebook is a stalker. Facebook is the easiest way to find out anything you want to know about a person. When facebook got the news feed, it brought stalking to an entirely different level. Even if you don't want to know something about someone, the news feed is going to tell you," said Danielle Palmadesso, junior, Ramsey, N.J.
Another unfortunate addition to facebook within this past year is that now anyone can join when it used to be a network strictly for college students. That fact is that was the only thing that separated facebook from the similar network, MySpace. Now high school students and basically anyone with an e-mail address can have an account.
Sound Familiar?
Why do we obsess over the way we look in pictures each weekend? The answer is simply because most of us want the perfect facebook picture. You wouldn't want to be "tagged" in a picture you didn't like, would you?
What is it about this online network connecting so-called "friends" that turns college students into borderline "stalkers?"
"Facebook gives students so much access to other peoples personal information like never before. The tagged pictures are like looking at someone's personal photo album, and the news feed is like tracking every move a person makes within their social network," said Andi Coiro, junior, Youngstown Heights, N.Y.
News feed, a somewhat new addition to facebook, caused quite a stir when it first came out. Students were outraged to wake up one morning, check their facebook, and see that over night their entire life was splattered across every student's facebook "home page."
The news feed started off as something that students hated, but now it seems as though they rely on it as their source of information. It allows you to see who ended their two-year relationship to be able to list themselves as single. It shows who you accepted as a friend and what parties you'll be attending. Not to mention, who and what your mutual friends wrote on each other's wall, and who updated their profile picture all on the same page.
"I think anyone who has facebook is a stalker. Facebook is the easiest way to find out anything you want to know about a person. When facebook got the news feed, it brought stalking to an entirely different level. Even if you don't want to know something about someone, the news feed is going to tell you," said Danielle Palmadesso, junior, Ramsey, N.J.
Another unfortunate addition to facebook within this past year is that now anyone can join when it used to be a network strictly for college students. That fact is that was the only thing that separated facebook from the similar network, MySpace. Now high school students and basically anyone with an e-mail address can have an account.
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