HM 02/25

  1. In the mid 2000s internet was not a crowded place, people was meeting friends by sharing their passions, and goals.
  2. In internet you never know what kind of people like same things as you.
  3. In this days it is still suspicious to make friends in internet and popular social platforms won’t try to change this way of thinking.
  4. People are scared that somebody met on internet could hurt them, or use them for their own purposes.
  5. Explanation how Catfish show works, on example of Sunny and Jamison.
  6. Big surprise when Sunny and Jamison finally met in real life.
  7. The Catfish show is exemplify how people ignore signals that something is a lie and believe in it.
  8. The Catfish show reinforces people scare of internet friendship.
  9. Computer scientist J.C.R Licklider believed that internet would be place were people won’t be alone, because they would met people with the same goals and passions regardless from social class.
  10. In nowadays Facebook concentrates briefly on real interaction between people, and more on making money.
  11. Mark Zuckerberg is approaching Facebook to much from programmer point of view.
  12. Every form of interaction between people on Facebook could be presented in form of graph.
  13. In Facebook world there isn’t place for unknown and anonymity, and human interactions are decrease to minimum.
  14. Technology cant understand friendship, because it is create only on logic site of human brain.
  15. There were minor social networks, besides giants like Facebook and Myspace .
  16. Makeoutclub might be first word’s social network.
  17. Makeoutclub gave opportunity for kids to expand heir identities.
  18. It was a place to share information about what’s new in the culture.
  19. Makeoutclub was a place to hook up, but in old fashion way by conversation, and with out control of programs.
  20. At Mateoutclub people were free in looking for new friends.
  21. Makeoutclub gave more freedom in terms of anonymity and identity.
  22. Advatage of being anonymous, could have one downside we can lost contact with person we really liked.
  23. People can also easier find each other, if they are using social network based on sharing passions.
  24. Out side Facebook still exist communities that allow to make new friendships base on what people like.
  25. If someone the same passions and goals internet friendship can be sustain.
  26. Makeoutclub still exists, and is resembling how past look like.
  27. It is weird that internet community had met up

Chen in passage “Don’t Be a Stranger” compare internet in mid 2000s and in nowadays in terms of social life. It shows that in general internet was more open space in which people wasn’t so scared to open them selves to other people. They made communities which share the same point of view. Internet was a place with less control of corporation.

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