Week 3 - essay structured summary
Ideology of Facebook
An article published by the Guardian attempts to convey an important message to all social media users. This article states that Facebook has an incredibly high stand in the unconsciousness of its users. From all appropriately connected questions to this article and matter, this question resounds: Is Facebook making people more vain?
In today’s society people are exhorted to run a personal PR campaign and feel like a mini-celebrity. Friends impersonate paparazzi and looking flattering on every picture is a first requisite for many Facebook users. A metric of ‘friends’ and ‘likes’ allows people to rival against each other. No one would think this of Facebook initially, but the amount of time spent on the social media device speaks for itself. It is clear that people care about their Facebook profile which, in most cases, can be viewed by many.
The competition entails more than you’d reminisce at first because a personal profile merely reflects how you want others to see you. The self-promotion factor therefore is incredibly high and a non-offensive ideology of sharing seems to have become an act of ostentatiously competing with one another.
The competition aspect might seem to have innocently emerged, but it suffices to say that people are geared towards this rivalry. Facebook itself is geared this way because of the startling reason: it is addictive.
Of course not everyone is as sensitive to the statements made above, but every human being in some way thirsts for recognition and this can be quenched to at least a certain extent on Facebook. Negative counter-effects shouldn’t be neglected because poor self-image and feelings of depression might intensify because of this relentless feud.
Account of choice for underlined words:
I have chosen fairly 'easy' words because I already found it rather difficult to write in an essay structured form. I chose the article we used in class because I first of all thought it was a very interseting article, and secondly, because this article already contained a clear structure. This made it easier for me to practise essay stuctured writing.