Invitational Rhetoric
Facebook is the largest social network community that has pervasively grown from a couple of users to over one billion users globally, it was established by Mark Zuckerberg a computer programmer, an internet entrepreneur and four others in the year 2004. it is now a company on the stock market traded as NASDAQ: FB and the world’s largest social network that is free of charge.
It’s amazing to think about the level of growth in such a short period of time, this poses questions such as is this social network the new revolution? Is it a new era? What is going on in the world? It is the end of privacy? Is it a way of controlling the masses? Is this what it means for the world to be a global village? These questions and money others are what we as users and people in the world of this era are confronted with and ponder about everyday. I hope by the time we look at some facts about this social network and discuss it, most of these questions might be answered to all you folks out there who have the same questions running through your minds just as me and possibly have a point of view on it.
The social network provides a breeding ground for socializing, communicating in a global society and its a source of information for most users since they use it to be abreast with news from different sources on the globe others use it to search for lost friends and family. it’s an effective means of spreading news, it gives us the choice to have personalized newspapers with contents that we have chosen by ourselves to be shown on our timelines, it is one of the tools for capturing moments by sharing things with friends and family like never before. It expands the scoop of friendship beyond the consideration of friends as someone you know physically. This is a touching story of Facebook "friends you may know" that a man used as a tool for his memory recovery.
This video is an example of how we develop friendship in these circles, a man scans through the pictures of "friends you may know" with the hope of recognizing someone he may remember, he used it as a tool for his healing process whether its effective or not at least he had a starting point and he is grateful to FB for having such a platform that he could use to aid his healing process. there is no doubt in my mind that if this man ever becomes successful in his endeavors he will be eternally grateful to this social network.
These two videos also gives an insight that Facebook goes beyond keeping abreast with news and friends, it might be a new era making great impact on our culture and the way we relate to things and people, structuring our style of communications and relationships. This video is a remarkable story that shows how a young man through Facebook broke barriers and went beyond the constraint of a nation and helped others that were deeply in need to bring about change in the lives.
Reaching out to people in need and having a sense of fulfillment by seeing the progress that comes with it, it’s indeed a great achievement to be able to put a smile on a child’s face through such a platform. It’s quite impetus how the children who wanted puppies got their one million likes on Facebook within hours of posting their plea for “like”, it kind of make you think about how powerful a medium it is, to consider gathering a million people in even weeks can be a very hectic task, so to be able to attain that in just hours speaks for itself.
Celebrities’ politicians sportsmen connect to their fans directly on Facebook and create personal relationship with them, relationships that might otherwise not be possible if not through a social platform like FB, I read one instance where the Danish Prime minister posted a status update and his admirers realize he will be out jogging so they joined him and went out jogging with him, it’s incredible how a social network can break the rigid hierarchy barrier in society. Rumors spread as fast as wild fire in social media however it also give chance for participants to go directly to pages of people concern to know the truth of the matter at hand. Sometimes it’s hilarious how Facebook kind of spread a disease and then gives an antidote for it as well. It seem to make the world more open and connected like never before.
Privacy is one of the critical issues when it come social networks like Facebook, there are series of programs, software that snoop on user conversations, collect data and send to marketers, advertisers, and companies alike, according to statistics about 32% of users are not aware of this, social listening, even if the intention might be genuine, is it then not necessary for a user to be fully aware that the conversations he or she engages with on Facebook platform will be handed over to other people for their own benefit?. It was quite surprising to me when I see these statics about Facebook.
Though businesses invade consumers privacy by listing to Facebook conversation, there is substantial percentage of people who are aware of this situation, the questions is what do they think about it? Do they really care or not? Of course some care and clearly some don’t. It is not only companies that snoop on people in these platforms but also Central Intelligence Agencies around the world use it as a tool for monitoring peoples life and controlling the masses.
Just as the video discussions mentioned, they use it to monitor where people have been and even where they will be via the Map application and status updates and conversations. The CIA has replaced most of its online security programs with Facebook this saves them substantial amount of money and time this is a platform that people willingly give out their information on and trust that their information might be safe. This poses a question as to whether Facebook is the most powerful pervasive population control tool ever created.
I read a few articles about employers soliciting information about their prospective staff on Facebook, using their comments and conversations as basis for getting to know them better in order to offer them jobs. It is quite interesting that FB doesn't seem like just a social platform but also is being used as an extensions of one’s self.
Works Cited
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Facebook statisitics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sThcwmx3rs
Facebook CIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLX29-ofo
A fulfilling dreams with fb status update
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpO_M6kpOVc
rebuilding his memorie with facebook people you may know
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1ujzRidmU
facebook parenting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXM5VTGL5s
get puppy with one million likes
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