The Fa cebook Generation
English 200 Summary Essay
The Facebook Generation
The article, The Facebook Generation, was written Alice Mathias and published through the New York Times on October 6, 2007. The article describes the overwhelming connection our society has with Facebook and how it has slowly changed since first being introduced. Facebook first appeared during Alice’s freshman year and was a website aimed mostly at college students. It soon began to boom and promised a to create connections between colleagues, friends and schoolmates. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, has even expressed interest in charting social graphs using his invention as a cartographer would. Though intended as a functional tool, Facebook did not become popular for its intended purpose. Since it was aimed for college students, and college students live in such close quarters with their friends, it soon became apparent that it was a form of entertainment. Like a constantly evolving novel that one can never completely finish and continues to grow with each second that passes. The author thinks of Facebook as one large community theater where people hide behind the curtain and dress up in costumes before presenting themselves. This behind the scenes is most commonly shown through the Edit Profile tab. People can put everything about themselves from favorite movies to relationship statuses and even favorite quotes. As recalled by the author, one friend even put that he was in a relationship with Chinese food. It soon became apparent that the comedy mattered more than the actual life updates and important information about people. Fake profiles became an ever growing trend in teens before adults finally decided to sign up. Since then Facebook has grown and has cracked down on these fake profiles but they are never truly gone. This was done to help the website become what it was created for in the first place, a mass online social network. Still though, these fake life events such as
The Facebook Generation
The article, The Facebook Generation, was written Alice Mathias and published through the New York Times on October 6, 2007. The article describes the overwhelming connection our society has with Facebook and how it has slowly changed since first being introduced. Facebook first appeared during Alice’s freshman year and was a website aimed mostly at college students. It soon began to boom and promised a to create connections between colleagues, friends and schoolmates. Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, has even expressed interest in charting social graphs using his invention as a cartographer would. Though intended as a functional tool, Facebook did not become popular for its intended purpose. Since it was aimed for college students, and college students live in such close quarters with their friends, it soon became apparent that it was a form of entertainment. Like a constantly evolving novel that one can never completely finish and continues to grow with each second that passes. The author thinks of Facebook as one large community theater where people hide behind the curtain and dress up in costumes before presenting themselves. This behind the scenes is most commonly shown through the Edit Profile tab. People can put everything about themselves from favorite movies to relationship statuses and even favorite quotes. As recalled by the author, one friend even put that he was in a relationship with Chinese food. It soon became apparent that the comedy mattered more than the actual life updates and important information about people. Fake profiles became an ever growing trend in teens before adults finally decided to sign up. Since then Facebook has grown and has cracked down on these fake profiles but they are never truly gone. This was done to help the website become what it was created for in the first place, a mass online social network. Still though, these fake life events such as