Like it or not, Facebook has expanded from a website exclusively for college students to embrace each of us – professors and students alike. Whilst the social networking by Facebook has become addiction in our society, there is recent uproar about the intrusive nature of its News Feed. It’s as if our activity and personal affairs are suddenly broadcast everywhere, grabbing away our privacy and leaving us naked in front of nosey parkers.
I made a casual comment on this question last week during the lunch with my interns. When I went home to finish the book “Vital Lies, Simple Truths”, I began to change my mind after reading the chapter on social lies. Within the social realm, we get used to keeping silence on certain taboos or shying away from topics that do not conform to the norm. Oh, sure, who would bother to list the Playboy as the “Books I’m reading”? Inevitably, we write and make wall posts in an attempt to bury painful memories or stories. If anything, we're disclosing our best posed photos and images by virtue of self-censorship.
Peeping tom upsets people by spying on us when we are naked. No, going to Facebook is a totally different story; we simply go and take a good look at someone else’s wardrobe where their best clothes are being displayed.
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All too correct. That's probably the reason why we write blog and diary - blog for the peepers and diary for ourselves.
To complicate the story, let me quote the observation by J.P. Morgan, "a person usually has two reasons for doing a thing: one that sounds good and a real one."
what you two have said is very true
In fact I enjoyed looking at both good and bad news about my friends on facebook......it keeps us closer while we're physically far apart
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