Whether we realize it or not, we have slipped and become the Facebook generation. Every picture, every witty phrase, every funny moment, we immediately associate with Facebook. We live our lives for the ultimate post or picture so when our hundreds of forgotten friends look upon our uniform wall, they will say "look how much fun that person is having. Man I want to be just like them". I don't point this out to say Facebook is a bad thing, if anything it has become a very useful tool in today's society. But if one stops to think about how it has altered our perception, one cannot help but feel a twinge of panic. Facebook has even altered how you build your own character. Every picture is craftily posed and delicately placed. You can make people believe you are a person based simply on the things you post. Soon that is who people think you are. If you post pics of a party you are a partier, different cities a traveler, lonely benches and mustaches you must be a hipster. It has become the platform of self creation. You no longer take a picture for personal memory or scrap booking but so you can finally nail that awesome profile pic. You want people to look and feel jealous. But when you click on your profile and view everything that is supposed to define you as you, do you gasp at the reflection in the mirror?
STW
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment