Persuasive Essay About Facebook

I remember when my cousin introduced me to Myspace. I became obsessed with this website because it allowed me to find all of my friends from school. I could look at their pictures, their favorite song, which of their “top 10” friends were, and I could also message them. To me this was the most wonderful thing I had ever seen. I would pray I could get home sooner just to log on and see if I had missed any important post or if I had any new messages from friends. It was until a friend introduced me to Facebook that I realized Myspace wasn’t as great as I thought it was. It became my new fascination because I was in love with the idea of looking at my friends various interests, like their favorite movies, books, colors, authors, etc. Facebook

You are able to change your name if you’d like, say you’re in a relationship (even though you are single), and let people know you’re from Italy but live in Los Angeles (even if this is not true). You’re ultimately able to create your “dream” profile. Clearly, Facebook doesn’t do background checks so no one will know you are lying, other than your close family and friends. “For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines.” (Mathias, pg. 231) This is how many of my friends saw Facebook when it became prevalent. Facebook was a joke. But this wasn’t who they really were as a person; they were just having fun with their profile because they knew no one took Facebook seriously at the age of

Technology has advanced so much that nowadays we can access anything on the internet in one device: the smartphone. The difference between a smart phone and a cell phone is that smart phones are made to enhance our lifestyle ten times more than a cell phone. A cell phone’s basic use is communication via phone call or text message. This was and will always be the basic features of any phone, or so I hope so. Text messaging became extremely popular when my generation started obtaining cell phones. We realized that texting was a more convenient way of communicating with someone for hours and not having those awkward silent minutes that you’d have during a phone call. Shery Turkle, a radio and television media commentator describes our generation as “Modern Goldilocks.” She says, “Texting puts people not too close, not too far, but just at the right distance.”¬ Social media has made us believe that face to face encounters and phone calls are uncomfortable and can be avoided simply by texting or communicating through text messages or social network accounts like Facebook and