Lab #12

Facebook Frenzy

Improving social capital

Over the years, generations before us have looked down on the introduction to the new networking sites such as Myspace and Facebook. Today, our generation has grown and adapted to these clever new sites that allow us to keep in touch and contact our friends all over the world. Since we have grown up with it; it is something that we do not even think twice about anymore, because we are always using it to check up on how our friends and relatives may be doing. This improves social capital because it brings people closer, and keeps people informed and interconnected. It takes our attention away from just an everyday quick conversation on the phone, and really being able to update one another visually with pictures and messages. Now that these websites are growing and becoming more and more popular we are able to connect with more people everyday who otherwise we might have lost or never had contact with, which clearly is improving our social capital.