Thesis it!

Alas my (hopefully) final semester in college has come! Lately I've been very preoccupied with stressful thoughts about my studies, especially about my thesis. It's already the third week of classes and there's only three weeks left before the Christmas break, yet I still don't have my thesis topic finalized.

I have been searching for literature materials related to social networking sites (SNS), Facebook, internet, and the sociology of education. I find social networking very much related to the field of computer science (well but of course, it exists in the virtual world, through the computers, you stupid!). Since in computer science you also study about networks, I think it would be of great help for me to study about it in the computer science and physics sense. ohmygosh. T_T I am now so overwhelmed with information overload.

Researches on SNS (social network sites) are focused usually on social capital, youth culture, identity creation, privacy issues, marketing, computer networks, anthropology of the online culture, but I haven't found anything that is related to the field of education T_T

i emailed one Ph.D. student researcher that I found online (he and his colleagues created this "The Facebook Project site" wherein they collate data and studies and information about Facebook studies) and I'm very glad he replied. Now, I am skimming through a lot of links and information.

It makes me happy and somehow my spirits were lifted up to find out that there are actually a number of studies already done in relation to Facebook and to social networking in general. But it's also kind of disheartening that studies about Facebook or SNS and the sociology of education is not of much abundance.

So help me Lord, please. And also you, dearest Ma'am Bau. Hahaha.

I hope I could be more industrious and dedicated.

I just hope.