Facebook. Everybody knows what it is and almost everybody has one. It’s rare to meet someone who doesn’t have one and somehow has survived college life. Even during orientation the summer before starting my freshman year here at UCF, we were told,
“If you don’t have one, get one.”
Other than the obvious use as a social networking site, it has also become an event planner. My whole life is on Facebook. It lets me know when one of friend’s birthday is coming up. It has almost completely obliterated the idea of a formal invitation sent through the mail. Now all we have to do is create an event and send an invitation to our friends on line. It even reminds me when these events are coming up. It has created an easy way to organize a mass amount of people with just a few clicks on a mouse.
But at the same time it has destroyed the personal touches that society once held so dearly. Now instead of calling someone or sending a card for his/her birthday, all you have to do is write a little note on his/her wall. No more excited calling between girlfriends to set up a date night for the girls. Thank you notes can be sent through the inbox, no more hand written notes that our mothers once made us slave over for hours. Instead of talking to people face to face or over the phone all you have to do is instant message them. People now have “friends” they have either never met in person, or “friends” that are easier to talk to through a computer rather than in person. It has diminished a society to nothing more than a computer screen.
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