Amusing article LOL

I was researching for a presentation when I came across this article regarding FB

Article Link : http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3863



Interesting bits from the article:

Back in Stone Age times when gossip emerged we lived in groups of around 150 and could expect to encounter no more than a few hundred people in our lifetime. Today we could easily see that number in a day. But evolution is a slow-moving process, and it simply cannot keep up with the extraordinarily rapid social changes of the last ten thousand years. So we're faced with 21st century social worlds but stuck with Stone Age social minds. We have a basic need to stay in touch with our group members but the size of our groups has outstripped our cognitive ability to keep up with them all.

FB, it seems to me, provides the technological crutch that can bridge the gap — to satisfy our Stone Age need to stay connected but in group sizes hitherto unheard of. Viewed from this angle, the endless "lol"-ing and throwing sheep that we see littered across the walls of teenagers and students is just the FB version of a friendly old fashioned (i.e., real-world), "hey" (which, in turn, was the human equivalent of an even more old fashioned grooming session).

What makes this phenomenon so interesting is the fact that with a click of a slightly different button, the conversation could easily have been held in private via direct messages between the two parties. So the conversations are personal but decidedly not private, hinting at another social function they serve. Rather like a seemingly innocent wander through a Sicilian village with the right company, FB wall conversations serve to publicly signal associations with others. Indeed, one recent study showed that others' judgments of what we are like are affected by the attractiveness of people leaving posts on our walls.

I could agree with what is said =)
Sometimes I find the conversations on Walls a bit too personal for my liking
But it's the freedom of others to determine what they want people to read
So i usually ignore what I don't want to read

If it's true that 'other's judgments of what we are like are affected by the attractiveness of people leaving posts on our walls', then I suppose me having attractive friends is really a great + for my social esteem needs haha

FB is really turning out to be one addictive social tool
Even geok yi is typing out a post related on her dream Car LOL
E.g. 2, I check on FB like once per 3 hours, seriously addictive =(


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