Part Two

I liked this Nexus application because it lets me easily see how the communities that I belong to look like and interact each other. I found that more than half of my friends are friends each other. This shows that I have many mutual friends. I interpreted this situation as a usual outcome because most of the people I have on facebook are those who I met in St.Catharines. Facebook is not popular in Japan. St.Catharines is such a small town. So it is usual that people know each other and share friends together. I personally do not put my interests, information and pictures in order to protect my privacy because it is true that people who you do not know can access to your page and view some contents if he or she was on facebook and have people in common. So I didt not see many people in the same groups. I learned that because we currently live in such a information driven society, communication on social networking site such as facebook ease and fasten our communication method even though we are far from each other and have time differnce. I have a couple of friends in Japan on facebook. Facebook email is more casual and handy than hotmail because I see their pictures, actions, information etc on facebook. I also learned that people in the same city or even in the same house utilize facebook as a communication tool. They may be just lazy to talk to them, but at the same time, facebook allows people to leave messages when they cannot see each other and even makes it easier to talk about topic that is hard to talk about in face-to-face. This is very important for people swiming in the information society, because people are getting busier and have not time. However, communicating on social network sites let people to communicate with anybody, in anywhere, and at anytime. To me it is important and I appreciate haveing the social networking site because I do not get online on msn, which means I only have two ways to communiate except F2F communication such as cell phone and facebook. In this case, facebook allows me to communiate with people I know for study and work (before) and even people I know in different countries without spending a lot of money for talking on the phone. In addtition, I can see how my friends are doing in Mexico, Japan, China, etc. Facebook is very convenient and contains so much information to share. Therefore, I also believe people need to make sure it is secure when sharing information and respect people online.