Final Blog

After doing the research for my final paper, it has really changed my mind on how I view Facebook. This social networking giant is essentially taking over all forms of communication between people. It is getting to the point where people are just using Facebook to contact people all of the time. Back in the day, this would not be the case. For example, what if you just got back from vacation and wanted to share your photos? Today, well you would just upload it on Facebook for all of your friends to see instantly. However, going back to the day where Facebook was not here, you would most likely call up your friend and sit down with them to show the pictures. This promotes true conversation since it is face to face and not just through a chat box online. I even find myself distancing myself from people more and more since I can see everything they are doing anyways. It almost seems like an awkward question to ask someone what they have been up to if they update their Facebook all of the time. If I did not use Facebook, however, this would be a good question to ask someone whom I have not seen in awhile.

So, with this knowledge of how much it pushes people away from true conversation, I plan to not use Facebook as much. I am going to focus on actually getting together with people when I want to talk about what is going on in their life. Granted Facebook is easier to get in touch with people, but I do not believe it is the best way to keep a good friendship.

The one exception to this would have to be long distance relationships. For these relationships it makes it really easy to talk to someone whom you possibly would not be able to with the expensive long distance charges. Since Facebook does not care where the person is from, they are just a click away. I am actually using it currently to do just that, and it works very well.