Social Networking Sites

I don’t have an account on Facebook, Myspace , LinkedIn or any other social network site. I prefer the old fashioned telephone call, or if someone is in the area, the “meeting for lunch.” I do have to admit that it would be great to talk to past friends from the same school, work, etc. but unfortunately I have to sign on to different accounts with passwords and various screen names. I like Myspace where I can get on, search a name I recognize and perhaps see their picture and some comments others have posted. Also Myspace opens it so that I can watch any movies that are posted or some entries that the person allowed me access to.

To get any more personal pictures, posts or greater access and I would have to make an account. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter requires an account before I can look at anything, which frustrates me. I wish in Facebook I could look at other people’s sites that are not in my University. As an outsider, I personally feel like these sites could do a little more for me. If all I want is to see a person, allow me to.

By preventing me from seeing a person I want to see, which is the whole point of getting on one of these sites, then I feel like I am unable to be a part of the online world of social networking. I would like for sites to allow me to look around without necessarily signing up for an account. I won’t poke holes in anything, and I won’t perversely comment on stranger’s sites. I just want to read up on my old buddy and see his or her picture on how they look now. Thanks to internet security, I can’t even look. I am blocked off from that world.