SN analysis: Facebook (creating or sharing?)

This time I'm going to make some considerations about posting and sharing in Facebook.

Everytime we access to our home page we are presented the latest posts by our friends, which could be of many different kinds.
Those are the ones I would like to analyse:

- statuses (someone actually thought what to write and how to write it)
- links (our friend might have found something in the Internet or shared it from another friend on the social network)
- notes (these are more like extended in length statuses that can be shared by anyone on his own profile)

A link or a note can either be created or shared by who put it in his wall, instead a status is completely original and reflects an actual thought by who posted it.
When I was talking about our friends lists I mentioned the "hidden technology influence", and I would like to bring back that concept for this matter, because I see it very neatly in the way some of my friends use Facebook.

This influence in the way we interact is strongly determined by the simple "share" button. The way we are presented posts and these sharing instruments change most of Facebook user's attitude to think and create by themselves in a less creative and more passive sharing attitude.

Isn't it easier to click and share a thought than actually think and write a personal one? Indeed it is, but according to how much time people (especially the young) spend on this platform, it might end in changing people's way of living and interacting with themselves in real life.

Think about it, isn't it just happening these days? Some people I know in real life don't make many original thoughts, thay just say things they have heard from someone else (maybe on the television?) and that they seem not to have reasoned on.

What appears to me as the most dangerous factor in these process are notes. There are groups or fan pages which can be used to publish notes (for example there is a spreading of pages where the notes that are published cover sentimental matters). The fact that I noticed since the introduction of these "group notes" (let's call them this way) is that some people, especially the younger, don't post any status anymore and instead their wall is full of these "pre-packaged-simple-thought" notes!

Now you see what I mean with wrong and potentially dangerous use of a powerful instrument?

I will be glad to answer any question, and also to hear your point of view, so feel free to leave a comment!

Andrea