It is true; the last days are upon us for my blog. My assault on Facebook and the unique culture it has created is indeed done. But stop your crying! Weep no more my friends! It has been a good run and I hope that all of you have enjoyed reading this blog as much as I have enjoyed writing it. I ask that your remember the good times…
In the first post we journeyed into what the mission of this blog would be, and how I would go about detailing and collecting this information. I stated that my goal was to learn why Facebook is so addictive and so exponentially popular, and it came down to this. Facebook’s magic lies in its objective and I’m not talking about world dominance like the computer from the movie War Games, I’m talking about Facebook’s mission to unite the entire world under a website that allows for interpersonal communication. What Facebook has done, and what it originally sought to do is establish a website that was capable of directly imitating the social experience perhaps even superseding this experience. By employing a variety of different web tools and consolidating them into a site geared for social interactions Facebook has effectively derived a new form of communication. This conglomeration takes photo’s, music, videos, writing, blogging, drawing, games and various other forms of communication and makes them interact and “play nice”. You can “comment” on friends “photo” you could film a video on a friends wall, the list goes on and on. The point is that Facebook has taken the best of every realm of communication and put it in a neat easy to use package which focuses on social interaction. Facebook is in a sense the voice of our generation, perhaps it will remain the voice of generations to follow, or perhaps it will be replaced. Facebook has made its mark on a generation, establishing itself as vital form of human interaction, and I believe this form to be here to stay.
Me doing research on Facebook...kind of
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