As far as I remember, my first experience with technology was when I created my facebook account. One day my mother organized a small party for a get together with my relatives. Me and my cousins were having some conversations in my room about random topics, one of which was related to social media. That is when I got to know that one of my cousins have created a facebook account through which he interacted with his friends and other family members, posted his pictures, shared his thoughts, etc. I really got excited after hearing all this. I found it really cool; to be able to have a platform where you can connect with anyone around the world, communicate with them and what not. The next day I went to my mother to ask her if I could also make a facebook account and she said, ‘NO’. That was a real heartbreak!
After a few months, one of my aunt’s organized a party at her place where all of us met again. She had a computer in her house, so my cousin went on to open his facebook account on that computer and taught me how to use it. After which I went to my mother again in order to ask her if I could make an account now. After a pause she said, ‘OKAY!’. I don’t know what made her say it!! I made the account, went on to search the names of my friends and family members, liked their pictures and commented on them. It was so much fun! I got curious about how the system works, and what goes into it that it is able to connect people around the world.
This story made me feel nostalgic of my past. Reading about how depressing it is to not be a part of social media really stuck out to me. Thats just because I also remember when I was younger, and wanted to explore every social media platform. Of course my mother never let me though because she was afraid of the dangers that young people face online. At that age I would get frustrated because all my other friends had facebook but its cool to see that I wasn’t the only one.
Im just curious though, if you had kids, would you react the same way your mother did, or would you allow them to join social media at a young age?
Umm, this is a tough question!! I literally don’t know as of now… it will depend on the situation at that time!! What would you do?
I feel indetify with you in this story because I also tried lots of times to create a facebook account and I also experience that ‘NO’ from my sister that has an account in those times too and I remember that I felt super sad because she didn’t wanted to create an account for me until I went to one of my uncles and he create a hotmail and a facebook for me, I also wanted to know if you still have the same account because I’m in my third one ‘:)
Hahaha!! I am still using the same 😉
I liked this story. It made me reminisce about my first experiences with social media platforms like facebook. Just like you I was in awe. I found it amazing that there really was tool that most had access to, that would allow them to freely and easily communicate between people. It was a place where you could display yourself or even build a community. For some reason it did take me a while to take interest to this though. I didn’t know that technology was this cool for a while but when I did I wanted to get it for myself too. My mom never denied it so I didn’t have issues with that. But yea overall cool story ! 🙂
Thank you 🙂
I like this story it makes think back to how my mom made me go back and delete my first few Facebook accounts because she didn’t trust the app and the people on it. That “NO” can really make you crumble sometimes.
Lol, yes it still does!
I feel I am relate to some parts of this story. My cousin and my elder sister help me to begin with computers. They teach me how to play games, create a social media account, and how to download stuffs. Even right now, I can still memorized those days my cousins, my sister and me. We always trying to grab that old computer because we all have somthing want to play. We argued, we fighted, we laughed and we cried. I can feel how happy you are during that time your mom allowed you create a facebook account. We all have good memories with technologies, and they are so immportant to us.
I had a similar experiance when I tried to open my Facebook account. In middle school, all my friends had a Facebook account except me so I kinda felt backdated. They used to chat with each other on Facebook messenger, and I used to chat with them via emails or text messages. It felt weird, So I decided to make one, I asked my brother if I could, he said ” no you are too young for it”. But I didn’t listen to him, I made one anyways with a fake name. I used to log in on my computer, and every time I log out and clear the history after I am done so he don’t notice. It really was a good experience.
Damn! Your story is better than mine 😉
No lie, my mom was cautious if Fb too but just like yours, she said she didn’t care. The story made me feel nostalgic because this happened to me some time ago, I think around the 6th grade. I definitely connected because my mom acted the same way when I asked. I wanna know, what was your first facebook post lol