Hal Niedzviecki's essay, Facebook in a Crowd, is a humorous and serious example of how, we as a society, have placed incredible importance on Facebook and other social networks to house our alter egos. The friends on Facebooks,
or lack-there-of, has some sort of truth of significant we are in the
real world. The noteworthiness placed on the number of friends and
responses has a vital effect on our self-confidence. Even more alarming
to me, is the need to state your relationship status! As if this
action makes your relationship more valid or less historic. I was very
entertained by this article and laughed at myself for the same types of
feelings I have about my Facebook friends. I too have had events on Facebooks
to which no one showed up. Although, I wasn't alone in bar wondering
why no came, I did question my self worth. It is also a lesson into how
friendships and actual socializing is far more important than updating
your status. The amazing results in reaching a vast audience online can
also harbor deeper feelings of loneliness too! You can have hundreds
of friends, but how many actually reach out or care unless it happens
online. We can be who we really want to be online and tragic as it is,
we are losing the ability to function as a connected populous.
Furthering the wedge, that our government, religious, sexual, and
economic class places on us. We are connected through a medium that is
removing the need to have face to face experiences and disconnecting the
spiritual experience further.
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