The social networking topic of the last five years has been without a doubt, Facebook. This interactive website has become more and more like a friend to some of the 500 million(USATODAY) users. Features and items are constantly being updated and improved to make Facebook a better experience overall. Now Facebook is catering to people's feelings as well, in the Photo Memories section at the top right of your home screen, all pictures of your ex (recent or from a long time ago) will not be shown. In my opinion, this is ridiculous. If you do not want to see a picture of your ex boyfriend or girlfriend, then delete them as a friend. Hey Facebook, you don't know my life! Maybe I am still good friends with my ex and I want to have a photo memory with them in my corner. What if I had a fake relationship? Now that friend is excluded as well? Pretty soon Facebook is going to take over your life and use your profile to post endless drunk pictures and create bitchy comments about your ex best friend. The human qualities that this website already holds is terrifying, it suggests friends and events for us to go to as well as alerts us what people are doing. Now it allows us to update and tell everyone where we are when we are doing that activity. One of my greatest fears is that computers are going to become too powerful in our world today, even more than they have now. Soon enough we will be obeying computers and computers will subconsciously run our lives. Have you ever taken a picture and thought to yourself, "Facebook needs to see that?" SEE!!!!! You are thinking about your friend, Facebook, and what you want to share with him. That is the problem with the world today, our dependence on technology is so great that we leave no room for our brains. If a computer approves it, it must be true. I am guilty of this as well, especially as a journalist it is hard to avoid. I know all of this seems a little far fetched, but is it really? I know I catch myself thinking "you know what computer or Facebook, you are right." Some of the things Facebook suggests actually broadens my horizons. It displays events that I would have never thought to go experience, which is good but also very terrifying. How does Facebook know so much about me that not even some of my closest friends would guess? What I am trying to get at is, do not let Face-book control your emotions and the way you think about your life. Sure, use it as an informational tool or fun network, but not as an advisor or pal. I believe adding Facebook as a friend on your real life list of friends might take it too far.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
10.20ish.2010
The social networking topic of the last five years has been without a doubt, Facebook. This interactive website has become more and more like a friend to some of the 500 million(USATODAY) users. Features and items are constantly being updated and improved to make Facebook a better experience overall. Now Facebook is catering to people's feelings as well, in the Photo Memories section at the top right of your home screen, all pictures of your ex (recent or from a long time ago) will not be shown. In my opinion, this is ridiculous. If you do not want to see a picture of your ex boyfriend or girlfriend, then delete them as a friend. Hey Facebook, you don't know my life! Maybe I am still good friends with my ex and I want to have a photo memory with them in my corner. What if I had a fake relationship? Now that friend is excluded as well? Pretty soon Facebook is going to take over your life and use your profile to post endless drunk pictures and create bitchy comments about your ex best friend. The human qualities that this website already holds is terrifying, it suggests friends and events for us to go to as well as alerts us what people are doing. Now it allows us to update and tell everyone where we are when we are doing that activity. One of my greatest fears is that computers are going to become too powerful in our world today, even more than they have now. Soon enough we will be obeying computers and computers will subconsciously run our lives. Have you ever taken a picture and thought to yourself, "Facebook needs to see that?" SEE!!!!! You are thinking about your friend, Facebook, and what you want to share with him. That is the problem with the world today, our dependence on technology is so great that we leave no room for our brains. If a computer approves it, it must be true. I am guilty of this as well, especially as a journalist it is hard to avoid. I know all of this seems a little far fetched, but is it really? I know I catch myself thinking "you know what computer or Facebook, you are right." Some of the things Facebook suggests actually broadens my horizons. It displays events that I would have never thought to go experience, which is good but also very terrifying. How does Facebook know so much about me that not even some of my closest friends would guess? What I am trying to get at is, do not let Face-book control your emotions and the way you think about your life. Sure, use it as an informational tool or fun network, but not as an advisor or pal. I believe adding Facebook as a friend on your real life list of friends might take it too far.
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