Do you think Facebook is an incredible
invention in the 21st century?
Facebook, agree or not, is like
drugs or alcohol that you will soon be addicted to it - think about what you'd
do every time when you are doing the reading. You'll uncontrollably scroll the
Facebook homepage to refresh and to know what is happening among your friends.
It seems meaningless, but it really works to refresh your brain and give you
energy.
Why is Facebook that tempting? Linking you
is one of the reasons. I mean, for example, we always love to ‘add’ our primary
school classmates as ‘friends’ because we want to know what's happened to them,
like whether they have changed their status to ‘in a relationship’ or
‘married’, though we have never ever talked or even ‘chatted' on Facebook. But
I think it’s really a fantastic way to keep ‘contact’ with those ‘friends’ or
you can say 'acquaintances' (In fact, FB added this category few months ago.)
Like, I have a primary school friend, who was just married to her Taiwanese
fiancé in Hawaii, and two of my primary school classmates became couple!! You
can see how amazing Facebook is!!!
Facebook does change you. It changes not
only the way you talk to you friends, like Facebook messages, and writing on
your friends’ walls, but also your mind - say, when there is current news that
influences us a lot, a lot of ‘friends’ would post it on their walls and the
posts turn out to be on ‘News Feed’. When you roll down the scroll bar,
you'll definitely wonder why so many friends of yours post the same news. You
don’t know what force drives you, but hey, you'd ultimately read it. I always
think that is the most powerful magic that Facebook contains; that’s why a lot
of politicians love to use Facebook to contact their supporters. I'm one of
them - I have also subscribed Claudia Mo’s Facebook to keep myself updated to
her most recent posts, because I think her political views are so
similar to mine, and this definitely will change my perception of local,
Hongkongers issues, like the recent national education dispute. Facebook,
therefore, I think is a marvelous tool for all the ordinary people, like you
and me, to changes others' minds.
Facebook shapes you. Your cover and profile
pictures, your chosen uploaded photos, the information that can be 'seen' by
everybody and the privacy setting can definitely reflect you. Not just
the information you wrote on the 'information' page literally, but the way do
you perceive privacy issue and how many 'friends' you have also tell something
about your personality, that you might be unconscious of. And that's exactly
what I want to show the power of Facebook and why people are
always addicted to it.
Facebook is really a brilliant invention in
the 21st century for all people to share their own thoughts to everybody
without geographic and time constraints, like you work as a journalist. If you don't buy my idea, think about the pictures shared asking
for donation and help,
or even just an emotional picture of a white guy trying to feed a physically
disabled yellow stranger. For most of the time, it
helped the dying people to find their loved and lost ones; it helped
the fragile one to get money donation or organs; and it triggered our indifferent attitudes
towards the needy. Are these the things that we could
do in the past?
Facebook,
of course, is one of the media we get used to, but there are a lot of new media
facilitating communication we have not been familiar with, like digital game
and digital video. I felt so excited and curious when I first knew that I could
learn how to communicate with others using such innovative way. I think I can
learn how to write in such specific genre creatively, so that I can appeal to
many players and audience (at least they won’t feel confused or frustrated with
what I wrote :P). Writing in a more creative and emotional way to the new media,
therefore, is what I indeed want to learn in this course.
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Yes! Bingo!!! I'm a social science student!!! :)))
