Hello COMM245! My name is Katelyn McClellan and I am a senior in the ILR School. I still cannot believe I am a senior already! I had a guaranteed transfer to Cornell so I came here at the beginning of my sophomore year. Deciding to come up to lovely Ithaca was definitely one of the best decisions I ever made!
The internet phenomenon I am most interested in is the new craze with social networking sites such as facebook and my space. I am currently working on a thesis in ILR studying how facebook/MySpace/blogs, etc. have impacted the workforce. Therefore, learning more about why college students can spend several hours browsing profiles and updating personal pages most interests me. I remember back to freshman year at CUA when we were only added to facebook second semester. Weeks after word got out, it seemed as if the entire university was friending, poking and updating! The actual thefacebook.com website was so slow, probably from so many people logging on at once! Today Facebook had reached a new levels with applications, videos, the mini feed and common phrases such as “Facebook me.” Sometimes I wonder if the trend will ever end or will there be a generation of senior citizens in years to come with facebook/myspace pages!
I would not be surprised if one day facebook incorporated all types of online space. Currently, features such as wall posting could be considered asynchronous and messaging is somewhat a form of email. Yet with video and applications added, I would not be surprised of one day facebook chats or even email accounts became a part of the site. Could you imagine john.smith@facebook.com!
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Hey Katelyn. What interests me most about your blog entry, and what drew me to it in the first place, is your idea of Facebook developing an email service. Yes, the messaging element of Facebook is similar to email in that you can leave a message for someone, nobody else sees it, and the interaction is asynchronous because you would not be surprised to receive a response days later. And yes, it is nothing new for sites that were not started as email services to eventually offer this service (Google, Yahoo, etc). But, I think that email service is a very logical next step for Facebook to take. I think that would give it more legitimacy and separate it from MySpace in the eyes of people who see such sites as frivolous wastes of time or dangerous places for online deception artists to work. One last note: I think that your blog was well written and enthusiastic.
That is a really interesting topic Katelyn. I guess facebook already kind of has email because we are able to send messages and all have inboxes to receive them. Also, when you mentioned about having facebook a part of employment/networking, I thought about the feature that enables users to post where they have worked or are currently working.
Another networking blog type site that is starting to get popular that you might also want to check out is something called LinkIN or Linked...I'm not sure of the actually title. But, basically it's like a facebook/monstertrak type site that helps people in the work force to make contacts with people in related fields and so on.
It was a pleasure to read your post and hope my comments help.
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