My resonation with "Tales from Facebook"

Reading David Miller's idea's on the evolution and relationship facebook have with users cause me to reflect on the impact it has had on me personally. There are several of the 15 thesis mentioned that I share commonalities. The first is: how facebook helps to make relationships. The idea presented was that it helps facilitate and expand relationships. I see this being true because people I encounter in class, parties, etc. who I'd like to keep in contact with, I would find or be found on facebook to continue the relationship that was formed during a, sometimes brief, encounter. In some cases, I more than like will never see that person face to face again but we will always see each other on facebook. I wouldn't consider facebook a "meta-friend" but it does have a feature called "notes" which gives people the opportunity to post personal thoughts in the form of a on-line journal; with this feature, you can also invite (tag) certain people letting them know you personally want to share with them. Facebook as a site of normativity and netiquette was also an interesting point made by Miller. I have notice that it is second nature to go on facebook. I have found myself on facebook after it taking awhile to register in my head that I was on there, in most cases when I had anticipated going online for something else. Facebook as the transformation of self and self-consciouness, I agree with several points in this thesis. I have seen many "hot or not" groups on facebook where a person have a picture and people comment under the picture rating them on their attractiveness. I have seen some harsh comment that could be damaging to the self-esteem of people. I also have noticed that I receive more friend request from males when I have a considerably attractive picture of myself as my profile picture.