“It totally changed my life ...”
“Heroin”
“Fake,
Addictive”
“facebook didn't make a huge
difference but have to accept yes it did somewhat but it depends n the person to
person! like facebook is good for me i get to talk to my friends and get
updated , but yea addicting to FB is not so cool i think"
“"facebook sucks my free time in order to give me
the satisfaction of meeting new people and interacting with people i otherwise
hardly know"
The above, is my little experiment on Facebook effects
before starting the assignment; in fact face book has dragged us all to a
remarkable era of communication. Even though many people believed it was just a
fab, those have cladded new forms of opinions over the differences it was
continuously making on the society.
Day starts with face book for millions
of people all around the globe, with the provided mobile applications face book
has gained the facility of being mobile, news flies to the Facebook users, it
is a faster method than specifically getting connected to news sites like
CNN,ABC or BBC; As whoever find out
crucial and newsworthy information naturally share those on Facebook. What ever
happen in the world on second will be on face in the next second. As they
say, ‘Go to the pub, it’s ok, but take
control’, whatever happen today night will be on Facebook tomorrow morning’
That is how life works with Facebook.
Facebook has become the birthday reminder:
today is Mark Zukerburg’s birthday, event reminder: Bach to Beatles concert
today at 7.00 p.m. , the best place for group huddles for academic and non-academic tasks.
It is one of the best ways for me to
get to know smart heads in the fields I am obsessed with, since most of the
organizations and companies use their Facebook page more often than the website
to connect with the public as it’s easier to update, this is quite easy.
Micro blogging is another amazing
feature in Facebook, most people revel their creativity with their status
updates, news get wings with feature.
Check ins allow people to inform the
world where they move, ‘Sarah Davis is @ Top of the Everest’.
Stalking is not an accepted verb in the
community, but happen every day with Facebook, most of the time stalking end up
in changing relationship statues from single to ‘ in a relationship’ or
possibly to ‘it’s complicated’. Many youngsters seem to understand being in a relationship
has lot of business to do with Facebook too, for example posting ‘hi sunshine’
in the moment they wake up, ‘liking’ every single picture and post on the Facebook
wall of the other person, posting nice (most of the time these are called,
‘awwwww cute’ , ‘choo cute’ ) pictures
which can be found on internet on the other person’s wall. In this case a picture of roses can replace
the respectable place of real roses. In nut shell, Facebook has created new
trends in relationships.
Is Facebook a fab? Why it is so
addictive? These are some of the questions that I tried to find answers for. It
is a part of Mass media, as it falls under the ‘new media’ category, yet
Facebook has pushed the boundaries of what a media could possibly be. It has
changed the lifestyle of nearly, more
than the 1.01 billion people around the world. What is the secret? Let’s find
out it.
Impressive: How long does it take
to reach 50 million users?
·
Telephone 75 years
·
Radio
:38 years
·
Television:13
years,
·
Internet:
4 years
But Facebook added
over 200 million users in lesser than one year. What could be the secret behind
this rapid growth? According to my point of view Aristotle is correct on this
particular matter. Facebook helps people to connect with each other in a great heights.
Mark Zukerburg the founder of Facebook states “I'm
trying to make the world a more open place.”
The world historically was a world of villages and small
towns, In a village you hear everybody's business. But in recent history, more
people are now living in big urban cities and not in small towns, But their
need for social information and getting to know each other has not extinct.
David Kirkpatrick, a technology journalist and author of the
preeminent book on Facebook, The Facebook Effect states
"Isn't it interesting that at exactly that moment, the
most popular software ever invented for communications is one that creates that
'over the backyard fence quality' of the small town? I think people are living
in cities and they want to know about people and Facebook makes it
easier."
World is becoming a smaller place with new technology; while
locking up ourselves in order to state our privacy, we all have the tribal flames
of desire on gossips and we all deeply would like to surround by many other
people as we are social animal, yet with the margins like ‘content of my shoe
is non of your business’ which drew by modern world standards ( my first-hand
experience on this :not knowing my neighbors’ , we are in the frozen state of
-Hello aunty, Hello putha) can be considered as obstacles on this. In this kind
of a background Facebook is a great tool to become more open to one another.
That is why millions of people share their life on Facebook, yell their ideas
to the world.
On this perspective, having Facebook of course is a healthy
way of living.
That is why Facebook goes beyond the normal role of media.
Media provide information, entertainment with a framework, Facebook provides
‘life’, and one way to witness someone’s life is becoming a ‘friend’ of that
person’s Facebook account.
According
to comScore, more than 125 billion people had made connections on Facebook by the
end of March 2012. In the first month of this year,2013, users uploaded more
than 300 million photos per day on Facebook.
It has changed the way people relate to one
another, It has changed the visibility people have into one another's lives (I
know a lot about my neighbor’s son, because we are Facebook friends)
‘Mark’ who marked the benchmark- Facebook as a business
Initially Facebook was a very small website with a
different name, and was meant for use by only a limited number of people.
Facebook history goes back to 2003 when a Harvard University student of IT,
created a very small website for use by Harvard University students. Facebook
was invented in 2003, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with his three Harvard University classmates. Facebook was initially called Fasemash. Initially
Facemash was available to only Harvard University students, and within a short
period since website launch, about 450 students visited the website.
“In 2004, Mark created a new website and called it
theFacebook. At this time the intention of Mark was to make this website
accessible by all University students, worldwide. More than half the population
of the Havard University joined theFacebook.com. Seeing the growth of the
website, a few people joined Mark in his project, and helped in promotion of
the website. Soon theFacebook.com became available by most Universities in USA
and Canada.
In 2005, Mark purchased yet
another website name, this time facebook.com. At this point Facebook.com had
reached several other Universities in South and Central America, and UK as well” http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/25
Besides Universities, now
Facebook.com also became available to the employees of big companies including
Microsoft and Apple. In 2006, Facebook became available to everyone in the
world who was 16 years of age or older.
In the later years, more and more
features were added to Facebook.com, like photo/video upload, apps, etc.
This is the mission statement of
Facebook:
“Make the world more open and connected.
People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover
what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.’
www.newsroom.fb.com/Key-Facts
To my eye, Mark has a clear vision
and an amazing plan towards his goal, entire population of the world is estimated to number 7.067 billion by the United
States Census Bureau as of today, which means 1/7 in the world
has accepted the idea of this young thinker. That is why Facebook grew rapidly
as a business.
One major change that occurred in last year was Facebook going public,
which means converting the business from privet limited to a public limited.
Price of a share was 38 dollars, Facebook
offered 421,233,615 shares of its common stock.
This is one post I found about the particular subject last year,
regrettably I haven’t saved the name of the site.
“If you want
to figure up Mark Zuckerberg's wealth at the end of the trading day, here's the
math: He still holds 503,601,850 shares of Facebook after the initial public
offering.
If the stock
closes at $38 — and it is hovering just pennies above that level with about 15
minutes of trading left — that would make Zuckerberg's stake worth about $19.1
billion.”
Barbara Ortutay, AP Technology Writer
“That’s what we
call business”, perhaps you would say. Best is yet to come, again found this on
a Facebook page.
Making profit at a minimum of tax,
now that’s what we call business. That is a lot of money for you and me, but
Mark must be thinking about the rest of 6 billion , that potential business
growth.
Predicting about the growth of
Facebook is quite hard, to my eye, it’ll be healthy; Let’s keep our fingers
crossed.
Facebook; Something more than a Fad. Social role.
Facebook is the new tool of globalization;
with Facebook many revolutionary trends took place in our lives. Some say it is
just a fad that could possibly flush away after some time, in fact after people
get bored with ‘status updating’, ‘liking’ ‘commenting’, But to my eye,
Facebook is something more than a fad, throughout the recent history Facebook
was a greatest tool people had to connect with each other, not just for fun for
some serious businesses too. Facebook gathered people for different political,
social and economic moments globally and locally.
Here are my global examples,
·
Egyptian Revolution Began on Facebook
A young man set fire to himself (and to Tunisia as well): with the
story young Egyptians started protesting against the incident, but how did it
all happen? That is where Facebook marked it’s entrance to the scene : Wael Ghonim, a 29-year-old
Google marketing executive, was browsing Facebook in his home in Dubai and
found a startling image: a photograph of a bloodied and disfigured face, its
jaw broken, a young life taken away. Ghonim
went online and created a Facebook page named “We Are All Khaled Said.” “Today they killed Khaled,” he wrote. “If I
don’t act for his sake, tomorrow they will kill me.”
On
Facebook, more than 85,000 people have pledged to attend a nationwide anti government protest. It was a REVOLUTION,
organized online through Facebook.
·
Spain Catalonia conflict helped by Facebook
Spain is in a silent war against Catalonia, the conflict silently
started before ages has got empowered with Facebook.
·
Against Delhi gang rape
Thousands of Indian students all over the country got together in order
to force the government and police to take the necessary actions towards the
incident. The text below is from ‘I stand for safe Delhi’ Facebook page, which
was created by the students of Jawaharlal Naru University in order to organize
that massive protest.
“19 December 2012 The gang-rape and
brutalization of a 23 year old student on the roads of Delhi has shocked and
deeply disturbed…………………………………………………
The JNUSU will continue its struggle to ensure that these measures
are undertaken.
Sd/V. Lenin Kumar President, JNUSU
Sd/Shakeel Anjum General Secretary, JNUSU
Please join us at India gate today ( 19.12.12 ) at 5 pm
details : http://www.facebook.com/events/120378174795019/?ref=22
Sd/V. Lenin Kumar President, JNUSU
Sd/Shakeel Anjum General Secretary, JNUSU
Please join us at India gate today ( 19.12.12 ) at 5 pm
details : http://www.facebook.com/events/120378174795019/?ref=22
Local examples
of the social role of Facebook,
It’s
one of media’s duties to create an audience for the different opinions of
people, but it’s very rare to see how most of the mainstream media has engaged
with duty. Because of this, Sri Lankans have moved to Facebook and made it
their platform, to discuss different
issues, political economical and many others.
·
Pressure
against the government, and the
corporate wrong doing
Micro blogging
allow people to express themselves with an ultimate freedom, as in the ‘social
relationship theory’ discussion and re discussion on issues happen because of
Facebook, different ideas, perspectives provide better understanding on issues.
·
Sinhala
poetry
Micro blogging facility has provoked Sri lankans’
creativity, many Sinhala poets update thousands of poems on facebook, Indika
Gunawardana is one of them, he is the first Sri Lankan poent who published his
face book poem collection as a book with the request made by many readers (in
2011,all copies sold out), name of the book is ‘ Hithe ketoo Tatoo’ . Kapila M
Gamage, Manjula Wediwardana, Indika Gunawardana and many other poets has made
Facebook to express themselves.
·
Event
Planning
Most of the
event planners in Sri lanka tend to do the publicity through Facebook, World
humanitarian day- SL, Rio plus 20 Colombo were entirely planned and publicized
via Facebook. It is cost free and fast.
Facebook
is not a fad; it is more like a well-structured piece of architecture which
attracts more and more people day by day.
Bibliography
Special
thanks to
Miss.
Sisini Thisara, Department of International Relations, 2nd year,
University of Colombo.
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