Facebook started off as a great social networking platform. Don’t get me wrong, even today it is a standard when it comes to social media and networking. The very concept of facebook was to bring people together. You could come closer to your friends and dear ones and share your feelings and literally anything you wanted. Now that is really an amazing invention because it was never done so convincingly in the past. The mid nineties saw an upsurge of mobile phones. You could talk with anyone in the world irrespective of where he or she was. During those days, it was really a phenomenal thing to do. In the early part of 21st century social networking began to pick up and mostly sites like Orkut started this uprising with the Nobel concept of getting in touch with people. The cell phone revolution had reached a stable state by then. Facebook provided a boost and rose up the ranks to take over Orkut. The concept of sharing everything on one’s wall was greatly appreciated. People could like a particular comment and post their views. It really began as a very interesting innovation.
How far have we reached?
From what started in Mark Zuckerberg’s computer lab is for all of us to see. Facebook gained a business dimension. It has become a prominent means of marketing your business. Almost everyone has a presence on facebook and that makes it a great marketing channel. You can grab people attention by the number of likes on your page and that probably inspired you. Oh really!! That’s what I get to hear from most facebook addicts. But for me, why should a like or a share inspire anyone. I really belong to the old school where I always thought that by you can be inspired only helping others. But maybe, this is the modern form of deriving inspiration.
With every innovation there are some good things and some bad things. What happened when Television came in every household? People literally flocked around their TV sets all day. Facebook has become more or less the same thing. People are glued to FB and they just love to post on some wall or the other. It’s sort of crazy when you come across the same people face to face. Their
Facebook posts are not really a true reflection of their persona. I have a strong feeling that Facebook provides a fake medium of presentation. People who are quite unaffected in their daily life put up messages which makes you think how much do they strongly feel about something. You won’t see even one bit of that feeling when you meet them personally.
The number of fake profiles on FB is probably more than half. I tried to do a search on a person’s name it brought around 400 results out of which nearly 300 resembled some TV model. So, what’s the whole deal about putting on your wall and trying to think that you are being admired? For me truth is reality and Facebook is far away from it.
Probably in a few years’ time, something else like FB would come up and it will show its own timeline.
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