After watching the Social Network and pondering 24 hours later about it, I had some thoughts. At first I found it entertaining and intriguing on how the whole thing got started, who all was a part of it and what has become of it. But this morning I had a thought. Is Facebook messing with fate?
I was always a big believer in fate, you run into a long last classmate you haven't seen forever because you were supposed to reconnect or catch up. You never see an ex boyfriend again because he moved away to California and you stayed in Ohio. But now none of that matters. Facebook is not just a social network connecting everyone in the world, its a fate wrecking network that might just screw serendipity forever. We no longer ponder about "whatever happened to so in so, I wonder what she/he is doing now?" Nope now we look them up, friend request them, write them a note and there you see a glimpse of their life all written out on a page complete with photographs of how they look now. What happened to mystery and intrigue. I sometimes I wonder if the technological advance is really just helping creativity crawl into a ball and hibernate. We no longer have to tell stories, we just flip open our camera phone or sign on to FB and there online is the story of last night.
I recently heard on the radio that social networking is causing jealousy to be on the rise. They were saying how we have always been jealous of friends, neighbors, etc but social networking is putting it all out there in our face. We often look at other people's profiles and say wow I wish I had that or I was there. When I heard this study on the radio I was laughing because its so true! I fear that the facebook generation will be even more envious of each other then any prior generation.
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