Many argue that Facebook is the result of our
generation’s insecurities and inability to sustain
an intelligent face-to-face encounter with someone
else. Others believe that self-expression have taken a new
form by the incorporation of terms such as “likes,”
“comments,” “smiley faces” and other tools use
to show emotions to the world through the internet.
While few states, that social networks such as twitter and
facebook, have established a road with a two way street that
allows one to communicate freely with millions of other users
while the other leading in strangers to identify you and perhaps
acquire your information for their own personal wrong-doings.
Although these are valid opinions, there is more to Facebook, specifically
speaking, than just an obscure website where everything and anything negative can happen. Yes, of course, there are many misunderstanding by parents and analyst about this new social and technological way of living. However, these ideas may have possibly being harvest because they are ignorant to the benefits and timesaving that this social media can and have provided this generation.
Personally, in the past 5-6 years since the creation and establishment of Facebook,
my life has change positively. Even though the connection of friends sometimes is not the real connection in the real world, I can safely say that it has help me learn from others, gain self-esteem and share my feelings with the world. For some people not being to talk one on one is sometimes about being shy and not being able to express your inner emotion in a free way to someone else, but Facebook has made it easy for people that are like this to just let go of the real world and share it in an existing fantasy world that won’t judge you for what you put in your status.
Facebook has not only allow our generation to express itself, it has, also, allow
for people to reunite. I am certain that there are many, if not millions of users, that had reunite on Facebook in a given time. For example, about a couple of months ago
I started to talk to a cousin of mine, whom I though I would’ve never see or talk to again. Also, I found 3 cousins, who because of their economic situation and their location in the countryside of the Dominican Republic, it would’ve been nearly impossible to get in touch with them and recently they added me as a friend on Facebook. I want to stress the fact that I am not getting paid by Facebook or sponsored by them to make this story, I just want to share why Facebook has been important for me and why many people shouldn’t judge this or any social network.
I believe that we should be very grateful, and fortunate to have the opportunity to be able to communicate with others across the globe in seconds. Indeed, we are the chosen generation for this kind of intelligence and being able to know how to work a phone, text, pay bills online, use computers efficiently, being able to repair things without having to call costumer service or not use the manual to put together a difficult furniture. If we can do all of that, we are certainly not lazy or stupid.
Many interprets the idea of us trying to be in a computer talking to other people and uploading photos to share it with the world as attention seekers. I completely disagree, I think that we doing something completely different and greater, we are creating a global network, going beyond borders and destroying stereotypes and prejudice, interchanging ideas in seconds with people from another culture, we are building a melting pot, involving oneself in culture diffusion and trying to creates of trades with our written words.
We are far from laziness; we are unconsciously creating a new world order!
