Thursday, December 10, 2009

When your life is fundamentally facebook


It is now time to face the facts. Who you are on facebook defines you. Why do I say this? There was an article in the newspaper the other day which talked about a young boy who tragically died in a motoring accident on the Worli sea link. One of our newspapers ran the story and tried to include a little background about the boy. What ensued was an abc of the boy’s life on Facebook. The number of friends he had and what they were saying on his page. It is interesting how the world at large outside his family and friends will now only him because of his Facebook page, more than anything else. In a sense this is cyber age immortality, on the other hand, an indicator that maybe some of us spend a lot of our lives on Facebook!

1 comment:

  1. For this Fb 'revolution' we are losing our lives, we are losing our hopes. We are posting EACH & EVERYTHING on Fb. there's nothing personal. Even we are sharing our most intimate moments on Fb by uploading pictures.
    One of my friend got married few days back and went for Honeymoon in Goa. He has uploaded all the moments (which were only meant for the couple) in Fb.
    Is this the way we want to live in this networked society? Then why we are accusing people and put them in jail for being a voyer? Fb is indirectly provogue us to do that and we are also sharing our entire personal life in Fb.

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