Danny's reflection

This is an interesting article. It is about a movement called “Anti-facebook movement”, and analyzes it. A group of students at British universities known as “Facebook refusenicks”, they refuse to use facebook and boycott it. They mainly have three reasons to do that, first, what if the facebook use the user’s privacy information to make money? For example, selling the information to promotion companies which target specific age group for business purpose. Second, for event promoters, they believe traditional tools like posters and flyers are more useful that internet, and someone just rely on the social network for promotion will not become a successful promoters, word-of-mouth is the most powerful advertising tool. Third, they just don’t want to follow the trend.

But as they do so, they actually fall into the consequences of being “left out’. They don’t know what events are going on because all promotions are being held on social network. I think this is the cruel of reality, think about what will things be when a person don’t get a cell phone in 2000s? A family didn’t have a telephone in 1980s? This is what happening now. Of course, you can still live happily without access to the facebook, but the reality is, you will surely “miss something”.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/student_life/article3152120.ece