Social Networking.. Time have changed..

I remember back in the time when social networking mean differently to what it is today? Remember the time when we have friend out to meet up in Greenlane McDonalds for a chat. If we do have anything to SHARE we would SMS our friends or call them. Plus those who are in the top list of our FRIENDS were people we could easily talk to or hang out with. 

I bet some of you readers out there must be thinking, "here we go again another son of a bitch is going to take a cheap shot at Facebook again." My main intention here to to outline a few similarities Facebook and offline have in common.

Remember back in the days when the Nokia 3310 was the hottest phone alive? Thats when every rich kids in school have it. It is also often referred to as the tool to crack crab shell ("kah chim" in Hokkien) or the tool that could drop off a 4 storey apartment and still survive the crash (as my friends used to say, "Cibai, Sah Lau Pak Kah Lau Lok Lai Pun Beh Phai Kok!" literally translated to, "Pussy! 3 storey drop down also won't spoil."

Get back to the topic at hand, the similarities. There is a reason why I think of such thing. I do feel Mark Suckderbird gets the idea for Facebook back in the years from the Nokia 3310. Let's see:

1. Facebook has this major function called friends. Nokia 3310 we have phone book.
2. Facebook got pictures. Nokia 3310, you can download pictures by looking through a catalogue on a Magazine or a website. 
3. Facebook we have the share button. Nokia 3310 there is the SMS function to SMS to friends about how we feel or any celebration we wanna do.
4. Facebook there is Event Page. Nokia 3310 we can call to invite people to a party and we can RSVP with it. Plus Nokia 3310 allows us to optimise who we are inviting not any Tom, Dick & Harry that is on the Facebook friend page. 
5. Facebook has the Birthday notification. Nokia 3310 has the Calender button that lets you set birth dates of your close friends. 
6. Facebook has games. Nokia 3310 has Snake and Space Impact. Though u might argue you are playing with your online friends, but in fact you are playing it yourself even on Facebook. Honestly! 
7. Facebook has the CHAT function. Nokia 3310 can both call and SMS. 

Alright those on top may not make sense to some of you. But Facebook has changed how we do what we used to do. Look at it this way, Facebook we have more strangers or non-familiar friends to when we were using Nokia 3310. In that phone, we get to keep our friends close and when we do hang out, we end up in McD or somewhere of a physical space. 

This argument is definitely going nowhere even since when activist are saying we should get out more. The reason I wrote this post is because I have sometime while I was in the store and because of the following video: 

After watching this video you would know what i mean. And oh yeah! there are things we do not share with a person that ask about our personal details, but we share it to the world of several billions of people of our information but we do not dare to give it to just one person on it. Why?!

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End this on a lighter side:

True... Very True..