Welcome to 32nd and Chestnut...

This is the blog for 75 or so Drexel students, most of whom are new to college and new to Drexel.

We'll document the strangeness of college life, try to translate our experience for diverse readers, and chronicle what it means to be a college student during these crazy days of economic turmoil and political battle.

That's it for now; I have to go an play Spore.

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Facebook Does NOT make you "kindly".

While inspiring people to appear "kindly" may have been one of Mark Zuckerburg's goals in creating Facebook, the site is certainly not doing so.  Social networking sites cause people to try and make their sites appear 'cool', if anything.  Users want to be accepted.  It's more about seeing how many friends one can get than actually caring about what those 'friends' think about you.  If a student, or whoever the account holder may be, is trying to impress, then their aim is most likely not to appear like a good person.  That member would put on their website what the people they want to be friends with would want to see.
Facebook is not a world-changing, peace-inspiring, let's-save-the-world-attitude inducing website.  It is what it is; a place for social networking.

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