The facebook phenomenon

Youth on Facebook/Chloé Terrace

Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and it was founded by Mark Zuckerberg when he is attending Harvard as a sophomore. In Facebook, users can create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. Also, communicating with friends and other users can be done through private or public messages or a chat feature.


We asked Lyne (14) France, Magdalini (14) Greece, Franca (13) Germany, Skyler(14) & Lexis (14) USA and Axu (22) Finland, some questions about Facebook:

1.How often do you go on Facebook?
Almost everyday.
2.How many time do you spend on Facebook
Maybe 30 minutes every time.
3.What are you doing on Facebook?
Watch our friend’s wall send messages, watch photos, check out groups and notifications, answer comment’s, play games and chat with our friends.
4.What are you going when you are not on Facebook?
Everything else: we go to School or go out with friends, ride horse or bicycle, draw, write, cook, eat and sleep.
5.Do you think Facebook is good or bad? Why?
Facebook is good because we can communicate with people we don’t see everyday and it helps to create global Friendship…But it’s also bad because there is no privacy and people can easily have informations about us, and many people get addicted by Facebook.
6.What is your opinion on Facebook? Advantages and Disadvantages?
The Advantages are that we can keep contact with friends, who are living in other countries, but it’s too open and everybody can see our wall and our photos.

We have also the opinion from Sarrai and Franzi concerning Facebook:
Sarai(35) from Mexico:

I think Facebook is a very useful and fun tool but you need to know how to use it. You need to be very careful what kind of information you are sharing with the community. Franzi(25) from Germany:

I think Facebook is a really important medium for globalization and international understatement. It is a good medium to stay in contact with people from all over the World. For using Facebook it’s really important to know who are the real and the Facebook friends.
Finally we can say that Facebook is a really useful tool because it helps people to communicate with friends and family and to know about them. With Facebook you can keep in touch with people who are far away from you and spend some time, albeit virtual, with them. Also, this website it’s fun and entertaining because of the games, photos, etc that it has. On the other side, Facebook can be really dangerous. There are more than 400 million users who are the main target of hackers, and other people with bad intentions. In Facebook you share your personal data with everybody and it can be really dangerous.

Text by Christi Ho Ting Kwan(HK-14), Chloé Terrace(France-14), Maria de la Lama(Mexico-13), Irene Velluti(Italy-14)

Wednesday 14.7.

French delegation:

Today it was our national day and that is why we wanted to be the delegation of the day. In the morning, journalists from the local newspaper “Vartti” came to the campsite. They shared with us their experience as journalists and taught us some important things to know to be a good journalist. Indeed, a journalist has to be critical for himself but also for the people who read his article. In groups we were ment to write and take a picture to create our article. Every group worked on different topics as football, music, freedom of education…

Cheers from Lyne, Chloe, Nils, Paul and Soraya.

Tuesday 13.7.2010

Delegation of the day: Mexico

This morning the Mexican delegation got to wake the whole camp up with a happy song in Spanish. The weather is so hot that we had to play Drip Drip Drop (water game). It finished in a water fight! So the result was we were soaking wet. We had a really yummi lunch and sang Kiitos. For activity two we played life boat and we had a great debriefing! Tonight is USA cultural activity! We are looking forward to see what they would do!

Monday 12.7.2010

Delegation of the day: Italy

Today for the first time from the beginning of the camp we could sleep longer than usually, until 10:30! During the night we made an awesome activity called House of Feelings. We were waken up in the middle of the night, blinded and guided by other people through the school. There were five "stations" where we had to experience different things using all our senses.
In the morning we woke up the guys with the song "Meno Male" of Simone Cristicchi. After lunch we had an activity related to the theme Youth in Media. The third activity of the day was based on stereotypes and then we started the Monito game!!!


Vi vogliano bene!

Interview in local radio in Finnish

http://yle.fi/alueet/etela-karjala/2010/07/cisv_kasvattaa_nuoria_kansainvalisyyteen_1829224.html

Sunday 11.7.

Delegation of the Day: Hong Kong

Today was a little bit different. We were divided into two groups: Rich and Poor.
The rich people had to dress nicely and they were served by the poor people.
And the special arrangement lasted for the whole day...

The first activity was held in the lake. We discussed the meaning of our camp theme: 'Youth in Media'. Then we had to act what we had talked about. We now understand more about the theme. Then, we can do what we had waited for a long time: swimming! yay!

We had our second camp meeting after swimming. It was no longer held by the leaders, but the youth! The youth can learn how to comprimise everyone's request.

The last activity was the debriefing of our Rich and Poor Day. Each delegation shared the uneven distribution of property and welfare policy in their own country. We were glad to share our feelings.

Oh, one more thing, today was the final game of World Cup!
All of us gathered in the cosy room to watch the game!

Saturday 10.7.

Today we had a bit different day than usually because right in the morning
we left from the camp and made an excursion to Lappeenranta city.

First we visited the fortress-area and heard some facts about the history of this fortress and why this city has been an important place already before Finland became an independent country.
After this some of our staff had planned an activity to get to know the
town and learn problemsolving and cooperation skills.
All the youth and leaders were devided in to groups in which they did some orientiering with photos of different places. There were also some tricky questions, such as what are things called vety and atomi?
To sort out these questions, teams had to take contact to the local people.
Wheather was really sunny and hot, luckily they were selling some ice cream at the harbour.
In the end we also got possibility to see little part of finnish weddings in the city centre!

-Staff


Relaxing after the race in Lappeenranta

Having picnic by the fortress area