- because: can be obstacles
- but: allows us to know more about our friends
- because: allows sharing of daily lives
- but: online profile is deceptive all the time
- because: people can say hurtful things online
- but: allows more truthfulness among friends
- because: particularly problematic among students
- because: complicates budding relationships among students
- because: students tend find out their classmate in advance
- because: creates preconceptions and distorted images
- because: preconception forms easily with the online profile
- but: prejudices are not unique to online networking
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- but: helps maintain friendships
- because: keeps us connecting to our friends
- because: multiple messaging: helps organize functions
Online social networking sites (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Friendster etc.) do not help us make more genuine close friends - but: it's necessary these days
- because: it's very popular
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- but: helps us to make new acquaintances
- but: no. of close friends remains the same
- but: can at least keep in touch with casual friends
- because: facilitates light communication
- because: no. of close friends is small in friendship group
- because: our cognitive constraints
- because: more friends demand more brain effort
- because: helps us to meet new friends with similar interests
- but: face-to-face contact is lacking
- but: initiate new friendships
- because: survey shows users consider meeting face-to-face
- because: users can easily feel tired of those sites
- because: social networking fatigue
- but: research shows those sites attract more people
- but: traffic fell between Aug & Sept 2006
- but: increasing no. of sites
- but: students return to school
- because: traffic of the major sites drop
- because: people join a lot but don't keep up
- because: users can easily feel tired of those sites
- because: users feel bombarded by those undesired features
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