Are you F/M?
Are you F/M? Have you ever heard about this sentence? Or when you began to enter the online chatting room at the first time, does anyone ask this question to you? Many users will respond “Yes.” It sounds interesting to me to be honest. It means even in the cyberspace, people still want to know the background in reality whatever the answer is highly uncertain.
Nowadays, the younger generation is familiar with internet. Moreover, they are always communicating with friends online through MSN Messenger or BBS. Since my first year in college, I started my internet life. On the outset, I only had the email account and MSN messenger as well. Roommates always chat online even though we just sat next to the other. At that time, having a MSN account is necessary to social life.
However, I was not into online chatting. In my mind, I always felt the virtual world is not reliable. In other words, the real conversation I had with friends is more comfortable and can lead to less misunderstanding. Clear to say, one of the characteristics in online world is no identity. It seems equal to everyone in addition to internet access. We all look like freedom of speech without any regulations. Does it mean “we the media” era?
From the chatting community, I moved to the other one that is related to getting more information about all affairs in my department. You almost can get all you need in that community. That is another magic power of internet. You can easily get the knowledge you are looking for and also pass the information out just a click. Generally speaking, it is the main reason that grows the users of internet. You might call it “hyperlink power.”
Last, online communities are developed into many kinds as long as someone needs. Being a person of 21st century, we have to deal with the challenges that internet brought such as pornography or security problems. No doubt, the most powerful function to life is information flow and exchange. That is off-line community cannot provide.
Nowadays, the younger generation is familiar with internet. Moreover, they are always communicating with friends online through MSN Messenger or BBS. Since my first year in college, I started my internet life. On the outset, I only had the email account and MSN messenger as well. Roommates always chat online even though we just sat next to the other. At that time, having a MSN account is necessary to social life.
However, I was not into online chatting. In my mind, I always felt the virtual world is not reliable. In other words, the real conversation I had with friends is more comfortable and can lead to less misunderstanding. Clear to say, one of the characteristics in online world is no identity. It seems equal to everyone in addition to internet access. We all look like freedom of speech without any regulations. Does it mean “we the media” era?
From the chatting community, I moved to the other one that is related to getting more information about all affairs in my department. You almost can get all you need in that community. That is another magic power of internet. You can easily get the knowledge you are looking for and also pass the information out just a click. Generally speaking, it is the main reason that grows the users of internet. You might call it “hyperlink power.”
Last, online communities are developed into many kinds as long as someone needs. Being a person of 21st century, we have to deal with the challenges that internet brought such as pornography or security problems. No doubt, the most powerful function to life is information flow and exchange. That is off-line community cannot provide.
posted by Mini @ 11:49 PM
2 Comments:
When my first time to enter online chatting room, oh my goodness~ "Are you F/M?" "Do you have a boyfriend?" Although it means in the cyberspace, people still want to know the background in reality, I think that many people like to chat in some online chatting room just in order to look for their boy/girl friends. I don't like it. Just as you said, the virtual world is not reliable. Since then, I have never entered to any chatting room.
Actually I have seldom experience to chat with strangers online. In this virtual cyberspace, some people will make a fake identity but still the real personality is not easy hided. I think it is an interesting situation, it includes several aspects: social, cultural, psychological etc. We can make friends and then become more familiar with them via chatting with them online, but I still feel uncomfortable to meet new friends as well as I cannot understand why there are a lot of people get addiction in even lost in this visual world, maybe I am an old-fashioned person!
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