Current event blog entry
For my current presentation in class I brought in an article from msnbc.com titled “Facebook adds new perils to rituals of dating.” This article talks about the development of dating nowadays and how Facebook has changed our social environment as well as how we meet people compared to how things were just 10 years ago when people were forced to call someone to get in touch with them. Today the alternative to calling a person is to “friend” them on Facebook in order to get in touch with them.
In this article Stuart Fox discusses how Facebook is sharing more personal information than giving out your phone number. One man interviewed said: “if you give them access to Facebook, you give them your life on a webpage.” I don’t think this statement is necessarily true for all people including myself, but you can learn a tremendous amount of info from a person by looking at their Facebook and in some cases people do put tons of information of him or herself. With this ability to put information about you out onto the World Wide Web, people are able to showcase their talents to anyone willing to watch or listen which in some cases has been millions. I have seen this happen first hand with one of my good friends from back in Boston who put his music onto youtube and now is performing in shows across the country as well as making into the Top 10 albums on iTunes. This type of evolution may not have been possible for people 10 or 15 years ago where getting your name out into the public community was much more difficult.
Facebook has effected people so much in how they act in just the past 5 years it will be amazing to see what new technology the world has for the future. In today’s world things are constantly changing and if someone told me that I was submitting my school work over the Internet I don’t know that I would believe them even 10 years ago.
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