Last year at around this time - a little earlier in the year perhaps- I had blogged about how orkut was the new obsession amongst my friends - it was in effect a new avenue of communication that had opened up that was not as personal as a phone call or an email...so it let you keep in touch with the more random people amongst your circle of acquaintances/extended friends etc.
This year, THE social networking site is facebook and I know this for a fact coz my extremely Internet unfriendly best friend is actually on the site and working it thrice a week. I have to agree tho - the site totally rocks - I think it's ok for the staying in touch bit [Orkut is better for the sheer simplicity of the platform..] but there are the various 'applications' you can add which are like just fun. It has the original pacman game [Now I wanna go play that!!], it has this weird funda of zombies/vampires/werewolves [since I'm so Buffy obsessed - I love these!!] where you get to bite people and 'turn' them and the more people you turn, the higher you go in the levels [please note, I am currently a Bishop in the house of Zombie - I willingly add people to my friend's list thinking of them as potential minions in my army......muahahahahahah(**evil laugh**type thingy - sowwy)!!].
In addition to these, there are the quizzes which are ok, the superlatives and nicknames apps which I just love....case in point....I just[ as I type] nicknamed Best friend Bad girl - go ask her why!! Superlatives has these crazy options like person most likely to turn to Wikipedia to answer life's questions and I know a person like that - go figure!! For some reason tho, everyone seems to have nominated me to have a blonde moment....I mean really now! I just can't figure out why?? ;-)!!
Let me not forget to mention the poke pro/superpoke/xme options where people can throw sheep at each other [this is definitely for the kiwi population on facebook - ask R & R, they can tell you!!], bite, hug, kiss etc. My personal options is to defenestrate someone [Don't know what that means - wiki it!!] However I have also been l33t haxxored - when I figure that one out - will let you know!! It's cute and there are variations of it like fight club where you get to do only nasty things - so basically my point of the whole thing is that Fb is 'funner' since it has more interactions possible which make it really addictive. I mean for God's sake, while I'm blogging, I'm logged on!!
2 comments:
I guess I converted you too badly. I was just going to say I'm tempted to move back to Orkut. All those applications on Facebook give me a headache. One day I'm going to clean up all the clutter on my page.
my current fav is the thingy of
naughty gifts where you can send people stoopid stuff :)
like fun dolls and hersheys chocolate syrup ...yeah baby yeaha..facebook rocks
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