Social Media to Keep in Touch With Friends and Family
To keep in touch with friends and family I use two different instant messaging programs, built into the same client, and one web community. The instant messaging program MSN Messenger is the program I use the most since it is the most used protocol by my friends. I do have very many friends in my contact list within MSN Messenger but there is only a few of them that I talk to every day. It is with help of MSN Messenger I do the communication when both I and my friend are online.
I also use Google Talk like some of my friends. My main reason for using Google Talk is that it works thru Google Mail which is not blocked by my work but MSN Messenger is. Since my parents and my brother also use Google Mail I can keep in contact with them thru Google Talk when I want to chat with them.
The web community I am using is Facebook. Almost all of my friends do have an account on Facebook and therefore it is an easy way to keep in touch with them without physical interaction. I use Facebook almost everyday but rarely for regular communication. My main use with Facebook is to look at pictures other friends have taken from events I participated in. I also use it to retrieve and send invites to other upcoming events. Without Facebook would I probably miss a lot of invites to nice events and great parties and miss a lot of my friends’ pictures of events.
Social Media to Learn More about Things That Interest Me
I do follow multiple blog pages and news sites about things that interest me but I usually don’t go to the page itself but I do use the aggregator Google Reader which can be described as a web based RSS feed reader. Google Reader makes it easy to collect information about news, rumours and facts about things that may interest me. Google Reader can also suggest new RSS feeds based of which feeds I subscribe to and if I want to share some interesting news item I can post it directly to a blog or email it to likeminded friends.
Social Media to Discuss Topics That Interest Me
In most cases I don’t become involved in discussions in a social media about subjects that interest me but in the few cases where I actually do it I use some web forum.
Social Media in My Studies
There is very few social media technologies in my studies. In some of my courses the course has a page in the social tool Ping Pong but it is very rarely this tool is used in a way that can be called social; often it only is communication in one way, from the teacher to the students.
What Social Media Technologies Mean to Me
Social media technologies are a great part of my daily life and almost every day I use social media technologies. For me it is both a way of spending time I don’t have and a way to entertain myself when I’m in boring situations, for example during a slow day at work.
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I also use Facebook mainly to watch pictures of my friends, and I agree with Rasmus that people are being invited to events that they would not have been invited to if they did not have a Facebook account. People are actively forming groups for new reasons and more subunits of interests are being explored. On Facebook and other web communities people are getting in contact in a more relaxed way, a telephone call may be much more distant than just add someone as a friend on Facebook. I also think that people would not have a normal “telephone-relationship” with all their ‘friends’ on Facebook.
In resemblance with Rasmus I also use two different instant messaging programs, but in my case MSN messenger and Skype, and also for the same reasons. Even though I use MSN messenger the most, I still wonder if it may actually lose its magnitude, when more communities also are adding value through an IM service. I mainly use Skype to keep in contact with friends and family staying in foreign countries. I use this service mainly to phone, not using the IM service (writing). So whenever I want to send an IM I always use MSN – isn’t that strange, since I could have used Skype for the same motive? All my friends are also present both on Skype and MSN – that’s a bit odd.
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