This is a blog for COMM 429: Communication Technology at the University of Cincinnati. We study media from media ecology and phenomenological perspectives.
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Facebook vs Face-to-face
I was recently talking with my cousins and fiance' about how facebook is one of people's main priorities now a days. Our aunt is on there constantly making posts about happenings in her life, things her "genius" kids do. She uses facebook as an excuse to put every little aspect of her life on so she doesn't have to tell us what is going on when she sees us in person (not that we really care anyways). I have noticed a trend of this from a lot of people I know. People will put information about themselves on Facebook or other social media websites that gives people a rundown of things about their lives. They make it seem like they are social butterflies and that everyone likes to be around. Then when you actually see these people face-to-face they have the personality of a wall. We now have a population of people who depend on words they put on the internet to physically speak for them since they don't know how to themselves. Granted there are a lot of positives from using social media sites. Sometimes we don't always get to physically see people we want to talk to so it is nice to use social media to do the talking for us. However it seems most people take too much advantage of that and they seem to be losing sight of how important it is to go out and actually engage with people instead of pretending to. Facebook was created with the best of intentions for people to use. But anymore it seems like it has become a free e-harmony of sorts with relationship statuses and drama being put out for the whole world to see. When will we wake up and realize there is more of a world out there instead of what we can see on our screens or create with our keyboards?
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