Maryclaire Manard, Student

Posted on November 2nd at 10:40 am

Online social networking has replaced a lot of personal, face-to-face interactions, which is very sad. This could be an explanation as to why our digital egos bruise as easily as our actual ones. At the same time, however, this argument can been seen from the other side.. Many people have become desensitized from these forms of technology. Oftentimes, people view their computer screen as a false sense of security, and this makes it much easier for them to say much more hateful things then they would probably have the courage to say to someone’s face. A very multi-faceted argument indeed.

Ian King, Resident Adviser

Posted on November 2nd at 12:31 pm

One interesting thing about using computer communications is how many computer friendships/relationships can form between people yet the cannot communicate in person. Two people may be best friends online but when they see each other in person, it is suddenly awkward or they act like they do not even know each other.

Ian King, Resident Adviser

Posted on November 2nd at 12:33 pm

I also know the people who do the ’social cleansing’ of their facebooks. They go through their friends list and just clear off the people that they dont like or dont even know. Some of those people notice and go in for a re-friend. Often times, that person is then left in facebook ’purgatory’, where they are left in that ’confirm/ignore’ stage almost indefinitely.

Brittany Ford, Student

Posted on November 3rd at 9:28 pm

Hahaha. After high school graduation, I deleted around 300 “friends". I don’t see the point in having 1000 friends who I never talk to, or being Facebook friends with a friend of a friend who I met once 2 years ago. I like for my page to be somewhat personal. I have a bunch of people who have tried to re-friend me. I re-denied them, but those people never talked to me when we were "friends”, so why should I allow them access to my page? I’d rather not have my entire high school reading my status updates and checking out my wall-to-walls. I know I sound kind of mean here...completely opposite of my personality. I just find it pointless to have people who I’ve never actually had relationships with read my stuff.

Brittany Ford, Student

Posted on November 3rd at 9:30 pm

However, I’ve accepted pretty much every Vandy student who friend requests me, regardless of whether we’ve met, just because I’m open to making as many new friends as possible here.

Tony Brown, Head of House

Posted on November 12th at 1:21 pm

Memphis said, “Friend me!” He has a page on FB.