The world wide web seems to be the other phase of the world. It seems most people's lives revolve around it.Social-networking sites are one of it's boasts. I know that it's the means of communicating to other people at another ends of the world. Friendster and facebook are the famous examples of it.
Well, I still have my facebook. It's been a year that I left friendster and transferred to facebook. I find the "new" social-networking site more enjoying than the older one.. (Well, facebook isn't new. I think it just have the same age with friendster. I can say that it's "newly-discovered") Facebook application instills me will the oldie is getting boring.I remembered that I had my farmville and friends-for-sale (ffs) account with my batchmates until we got fed up.Aside from keeping track with my old and new friends (or making friends),it's all-in-one for it has a chat feature. Instead of making IM's in Yahoo messenger (YM) just to resist on useless group messages (or what we call GM) that freezes my PC, I'm using facebook.
Notification is the commonly-used lingo on facebook.From the word itself, it makes you notify on facebook alerts. I remembered that it was found at the bottom part of the page near the chat bar. Since facebook updated it's "look", it transfered at the top of the page near the messages.
Another jargon is tag. A characteristic in which facebook becomes impressive due to tagging feature wherein you'll be prompted that you have your OWN photo at your friends' album instead of browsing their profile one- by-one. Well, the friendster team challenged and had a new-look at mid-2009 and copied facebook's tagging feature (well, it still becoming fluff little by little). It's not just on photos, you may be tagged to an important note, announcement, video and etc. You'll increase your notifications as long as you're tagged plus the comments at the one you are tagged at.
For me, notification and tag are significant for they would keep me in track easily. Deplorably, those features are misused nowadays especially to my friends. Well it's okay that I'm tagged at a photo without the presence of my face as long as it's important. It's fine if I'm tagged at a quote or a beautiful scene. It's alright to comment on those.But comments feature is abused. Well let's define comment. Comment is the act of giving feedback. It seems that COMMENT turned into CHAT. I noticed nowadays that users are now putting comments which aren't either related to the photo they're tagged at. It seems that one talks about something to another. Besides, the other ones that are tagged have flooding notifications just like "whoever commented on a photo of YOU". Others may be prompted to open that link yet they just wasted a time for what they've read is just a conversation and it's useless for them. Plus another minus is that it seems that the important notification is covered. It's just like what happened to me the other day. I haven't noticed the comments of my fellow staffers in my notes at MNSHS Sentebale wall that's so crucial for they were covered by the useless "a photo of you" notifications. It seems I need to be back to the primitive. I really need to visit the profile page now and then just like friendster. Well there are chat, message and wall feature that eventually became worthless. They may converse there instead of flooding notifications.
I admit that I committed that mistake in the past. I just realize the awkwardness it brings to my fellow friends just like me. Even me myself felt unease at it. I believe that nobody is perfect and I'm hopeful that everybody is open for a change. I wish that the social-networking site's feature (not just facebook and friendster) wouldn't be misapplied. I believe that we have those accounts for enjoyment and useful purposes but we must think for the welfare of all. We must assure that what we do must not feel the others uncomfortable on what we did. Fellow friends sorry sa mga natamaan... :) 
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