Well here I was scrolling down my facebook home page ,and it just hit me how many people actually use facebook to publicize their private lives.It's almost a fever where everyone shares all their intimate personal dramas, hopes, plans etc on facebook.Social networking has become a forum for people to live their rich and famous fantasies in real life ,by sharing their lives with so called facebook "friends".
But really,how many of us our genuinely interested in the vacation plans of a guy we met at a seminar two years ago?Or the daily chronicles of the person who sat next to us in grade 2, whom we haven't seen in 15 years?Not many I'm quite sure.But still we keep on sharing our private moments with people who most probably can't even recall the last real life conversation we shared.Ironically, we also do like to stick our noses into these shared stories to collect gossip so as to share with friends ,the next time we meet them.(Or even through facebook itself)
Through facebook we have become both celebrities and paparazzi.We like to publish and share our own life experiences with others ,as well as learn all about what other people have been up to lately.Social networking via the internet itself is definitely a phenomenon which has unleashed our inner most human desire to be well known to one and all.
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