Innocent Facebook(!)
INNOCENT FACEBOOK(!)
Facebook is a social networking service, which has over one billion active users create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. So it creates a question in my mind why such a huge number of people wants to use Facebook. A pitch, which is called “Advantages of Maintaining a Facebook Profile”, was published in February 2011 in facebook. A lot of benefits were explored in that pitch, first of all someone who has an active facebook profile is fundamentally visible to the rest of the world. Secondly, people can feel closer than ever to each other by uploading new pictures and posting updates and last but not least he/she claimed that facebook profile also accomodates users a place for personal Internet presence and promotes self-expression and indiviuality. However many controversial criticisims of these advantages have now become apparent. People who don’t have Facebook profile is not invisible to the rest of the World because this social network is not real and creates hyperreality. In addition to its hollowness, it makes people alienate to each other quite the contrary of getting close to each other because it diminishes face to face communication. It also creates prototypes by not allowing people to charecterize their profiles.
The thessis of that someone who does not have Facebook profile, they are invisible to the rest of the world is a debated issue because Facebook is an hyperrealistic social network. Hyperreality is generally defined as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. Ben Jones has defined hyperreality is the point where the statements and ideas behind an object often become more important than the original object itself and replace it(Jones,57). Facebook is a kind of hyperrealistic network because facebook profiles becomes more than you are. This
Facebook is a social networking service, which has over one billion active users create profiles with photos, lists of personal interests, contact information and other personal information. So it creates a question in my mind why such a huge number of people wants to use Facebook. A pitch, which is called “Advantages of Maintaining a Facebook Profile”, was published in February 2011 in facebook. A lot of benefits were explored in that pitch, first of all someone who has an active facebook profile is fundamentally visible to the rest of the world. Secondly, people can feel closer than ever to each other by uploading new pictures and posting updates and last but not least he/she claimed that facebook profile also accomodates users a place for personal Internet presence and promotes self-expression and indiviuality. However many controversial criticisims of these advantages have now become apparent. People who don’t have Facebook profile is not invisible to the rest of the World because this social network is not real and creates hyperreality. In addition to its hollowness, it makes people alienate to each other quite the contrary of getting close to each other because it diminishes face to face communication. It also creates prototypes by not allowing people to charecterize their profiles.
The thessis of that someone who does not have Facebook profile, they are invisible to the rest of the world is a debated issue because Facebook is an hyperrealistic social network. Hyperreality is generally defined as a condition in which what is real and what is fiction are blended together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. Ben Jones has defined hyperreality is the point where the statements and ideas behind an object often become more important than the original object itself and replace it(Jones,57). Facebook is a kind of hyperrealistic network because facebook profiles becomes more than you are. This