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An icebreaker, usually used in tournaments and groups with new members, can be an effective method to force the unknowns to familiarize with themselves. Most icebreakers are done by recreational games, but the author in this article states icebreakers can also be done online.
For instance in Facebook, I have met my Maya friends before I physically came to Colegio Maya last year. Before I have met them personally, I added them as friends on Facebook, and talked to them by introducing myself. Consequently, I became friends with people I have never met before. First day of school, needless to say, was not awkward, bulky, or nervous at all because I already knew whom I was going to meet.
As Kyle said, an icebreaker is used to familiarize yourself with a new person. Icebreakers online can be very useful specially for those people who are shy and not up front. Internet networks could be used to get to know a person you have recently met briefly. This way you would not have to face awkward situations of talking on the phone or going on a date that later turns out to be unpleasant. By using the internet you don't only avoid awkward situations, you can also have the liberty to respond and ask questions whenever you want, and you can't be put on the spot.
Icebreakers are activities or other ways to socialize, interact, and know each other; to "break the ice" between people. When Wurster says that networks can be icebreakers, she is saying that social-networking sites like Facebook and Myspace are a way to know more about each other, meet strangers, and keep friendships. Social-networks are an easier way to meet new people and keep conversations. Besides chatting with others, in social- networks people can play online games, share pictures, stories, hobbies, and other similarities which make them more comfortable to interact with strangers. Icebreakers are meant to break the walls around people to meet others like Facebook, MySpace and other networks work.
By stating “ice-breakers” she did not only refer to a situation that relaxes a tense or formal atmosphere, as my classmates have commented before me, but as a way of showing others the side of you that you want them to see. The author states earlier on in the paragraph that “we try to define ourselves or respond to how they define themselves”. By saying this, she did not mean that Facebook and Myspace forces people to get acquainted with each other, but that it allows people to portray themselves without having to defend or react accordingly to constant moral judgments that occur in face-to-face interactions. The “bite-sized lists of likes and dislikes” (Wurster, Paragraph 3) allow people to show their peers who they truly are, not who they appear to be, or who they are framed of acting like in certain situations. It’s a way of shouting out to people to see beyond the obvious, and allowing them to feel like they truly know eachother.
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