Comments on Essay 1

Comment on Karin Andersson

When I read Karin Andersson’s essay about her mum joining Facebook in order to get an invitation to her sons birthday party I remembered a similar situation from my own experiences. My brother is not very good at staying in contact with his family when he is travelling. He stayed in USA for one year and did not take any pictures himself and sent just a few e-mails. My mum created a Facebook profile so that she could see what he was up to on his profile. By doing so she could also see all the photos that he was tagged in. At the moment he is actually travelling again and this time my mum has to be a friend of his travel friend on Facebook to get updated. I think that Karin’s story and this story really shows how Facebook has become a part of the society and how you need to be a part of it if you want to communicate with people that are using it.

I also would like to say that our social media technologies habits seem to be quite similar. Just like you mentioned, I do not contribute much to sites like Wikipedia while I contribute with content on Facebook.

 

Comment on Weiwei Zhao

If I should compare my habits with Weiwei Zhao it seems as if Weiwei Zhao use social media technologies more than I do. I have used msn before but I do not use it on a daily basis. There was a time when I used it almost everyday, since I had friends living quite far away from me. In these cases it is very convenient to be able to use msn. I can imagine that it is great to use it when you are in Sweden to keep in contact with your friends in Kina. However, I think that msn is quite unnecessary when you live close and could meet instead. You mentioned that you use it mainly to keep in contact with international friends, but some use it instead of actually meet in real life even if it is not very difficult to do so.

I find it interesting to know a little bit about QQ. Actually I have to admit that I did not know it existed. It is fun to hear that there is a feature for raising your own electronic pets, since I had a tamagotchi when I was middle school. =)