I think Facebook
have changed the world in many ways. I remember my first interaction with
Facebook around 2007 when I was studying in Australia and there were rumors going
on about a big student-party.
I asked a
corridor mate about how I could get more information about this gathering and
she told me that all information was on Facebook, and I remember that I was a
bit confused over what Facebook was.
At the
moment she introduced me to Facebook it was love at the first sight and I was
stuck. The best part was that it was easy to keep in contact with all relatives
and friends at home and be updated with all things going on in their lives.
Nowadays I
see Facebook as a part of the infrastructure and I use it daily. Both in my
personal and professional life because it’s have been more and more important
for companies to know what the crowd thinks of their brand or products.
The
downside with Facebook is that people tend to building up a façade were
everything in their lives are so fantastic and perfect but in the end their
lives are no better than others at all. It also feels like it has become a
platform for sharing news without any critical review of the information.
I can also
react on that people seems to be so busy checking out what’s going on in others
life so they are forgetting to live their own lives. For example, I can’t remember
how many times I’ve seen people sitting and eating dinner without talking to each
other, just stirring blindly down on their cellphones.
I think a
big part of us needs to interact face to face in order to evolve as humans, and
learn to read how people react to different facts and thoughts. It’s hard to
imagine someone’s expression and reaction without physically seeing it.
