Technology on TV

I was watching the TBS show My Boys the other day and they had an entire episode about Facebook. I felt that I had to mention it here because this is a Web 2.0 tool which we are learning about in my Teaching With Technology class. The show's premise was basically that everyone posts these silly, up-to-the-minute, updates on what they are doing. Who cares if you are going to the bathroom?! It also talked about who to be friends with. If you set your account so that "friends of friends" can see you, sometimes you don't know who has access to your information! On the show, one of the boys was "researching" this woman on her facebook page so that he could come on to her in the bar. She was already a friend of one of his friends, so he could view her page. It also focused on being able to talk to people that you normally wouldn't without the technology, like old boyfriends or girlfriends. The basic conclusion of the "gang" on My Boys was that Facebook was really only a way for people to be nosy. Everyone knows each others' business and it's not always good to be that connected. I think it is all in how you use it. I personally do have a Facebook page and I like to see what friends' birthdays are coming up. I joined mostly to find people that I had lost touch with over the years. I am not one of the super fanatics that posts everything that they are doing or feeling at every moment of the day (which is why I will never get a Twitter account). As I entitled my webpage, everything is OK...in moderation!!!