Facebook as a Popular Culture
Gayathiri Ramasamy
13 July 2013
Analysis of Facebook as a Popular Culture
Do you ever imagine one day we encounter the worldwide blackout just like in Revolution, an American post apocalyptic science fiction drama? There is no electricity, internet or computer. Can you survive without all this equipment? I believe more than fifty percent of people would say no. Especially in this so-called “E-World,” we, humans, are too dependent on computers, internet and so on. As a regular social networking site user, I would say I wouldn’t survive without electricity. Why are these social networking sites so influential for us? Why has it become a part of our everyday life? How does it affect our society?
Whether you believe it or not social networking sites have changed the way we interact with each other; they bring every kind of social group together in one place and lets them interact with each other without any physical contact. With the rapid invention of new technology nowadays, it has become a popular culture in the world. All these social networking sites are created by using HTML (hyper text markup language) and associated with web authoring programs. As we all know, today the most popular social networking site is Facebook. The purpose of Mark Zuckerberg to create the site with his fellow Harvard University students was to connect the students around the university. Based on the statistical data, twenty four hours after Zuckerberg registered the facebook.com domain in the year 2004, 1200 students had signed up and after one month over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. In the year 2006, Facebook reached the globe. In the brief period spanning from August 2008 to April 2009, the number of Facebook users doubled from 100 million to 200 million (Smith and Kidder 492). Facebook has changed the way people communicate. Basically, it allows us to talk to every person we have ever met as long as they are registered. Also, now people don’t have
13 July 2013
Analysis of Facebook as a Popular Culture
Do you ever imagine one day we encounter the worldwide blackout just like in Revolution, an American post apocalyptic science fiction drama? There is no electricity, internet or computer. Can you survive without all this equipment? I believe more than fifty percent of people would say no. Especially in this so-called “E-World,” we, humans, are too dependent on computers, internet and so on. As a regular social networking site user, I would say I wouldn’t survive without electricity. Why are these social networking sites so influential for us? Why has it become a part of our everyday life? How does it affect our society?
Whether you believe it or not social networking sites have changed the way we interact with each other; they bring every kind of social group together in one place and lets them interact with each other without any physical contact. With the rapid invention of new technology nowadays, it has become a popular culture in the world. All these social networking sites are created by using HTML (hyper text markup language) and associated with web authoring programs. As we all know, today the most popular social networking site is Facebook. The purpose of Mark Zuckerberg to create the site with his fellow Harvard University students was to connect the students around the university. Based on the statistical data, twenty four hours after Zuckerberg registered the facebook.com domain in the year 2004, 1200 students had signed up and after one month over half of the undergraduate population had a profile. In the year 2006, Facebook reached the globe. In the brief period spanning from August 2008 to April 2009, the number of Facebook users doubled from 100 million to 200 million (Smith and Kidder 492). Facebook has changed the way people communicate. Basically, it allows us to talk to every person we have ever met as long as they are registered. Also, now people don’t have