Culture as defined by Encarta English Dictionary: shared beliefs and values of group – the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people or people with shared beliefs and practices or shared attitudes – a particular set of attitude that characterizes a group of people. Culture in my definition is the manifestation of the language, mind and soul of group of people who have one common aspect. By having said that, culture exists since the existence of human being thousands of years ago. There are hundreds if not thousands types of culture that evolves from one decade to another, which makes our life full of fun, interesting and yet challenging.
In this decade, the blend of creativity and innovation has made our life much simpler and borderless. The colors, shapes and characters, which traditionally defined the culture of human being is no more relevant. In this millennium, there are many types of culture born and developed by people. And one of it, the one that I am going to talk is the Facebook Culture.
Facebook was founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg who was born in White Plains, New York to a Jewish family and raise in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Born in May 14, 1984, he is currently one of the youngest (at 26 years old) billionaires in the world with personal wealth of US$4 billion. Actually, Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook (FB) with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard and to be specific, he launched it from his dorm room on February 4, 2004. Thanks to him and his friends for inventing such innovative infrastructure in the cyberspace that had made this world become more ‘smaller’ and borderless.
Zuckerberg, in my opinion has not only invented FB for people to share their photos and thoughts, but instead had created and developed a cyberspace community with its own culture. In short span of time, relatively speaking, people of all levels from all walks of life of various faiths, globally, became united and unconsciously subscribed themselves to the community – the FB Community (FBC). Irrespective of their mother tongue languages, the FBC has its own language and literature, comprises of simplified words and emoticons, hence the FBC Jargon.
The FB allows its community to release their attitude – perception, thoughts, and disposition openly in the net (they brazenly ‘exposed’ their identities or even dignities!!!?) ; it provokes its member to defend and show-off their ego voluntarily – shamelessly; it encourages its people to talk or chat free of charge, 24 hours a day and seven days a week – hence they talk openly everything under the sun, flirting, criticizing, joking, etc., even to someone who actually they don’t know whom they never meet before; and it educates its people in many aspects, such as business, innovation, etc.
As much as we know, every coin has two sides and what I am worry about the FBC are: its people somehow or rather, had disengaged their values and principles; deviated from the religious path (need to be further elaborated though); lose their focus, thus unproductive; and devalued their dignity. This is alarming! Albeit equipped with great CPU and the fifth sense, human being, more often than not, misused or abused what had been given to them – many things. Wives sneaked around from their husbands to satisfy their crazes and addictions – chatting with their so called ‘friends’ - friends whom they actually did not have any single clue of their backgrounds, motif and agenda; through FB or any other platforms. Worst case, they chat addictively and excitingly with webcam ‘on’ adventuring their desire, hence, hooked with immoral activity denying their faith and dignity! They gave excuses to not giving attention to their husbands just to be with its community – the FBC and, of course, vice-versa. And, what astonished me, she, without feeling any guilty with pride doing it!
In this decade, the blend of creativity and innovation has made our life much simpler and borderless. The colors, shapes and characters, which traditionally defined the culture of human being is no more relevant. In this millennium, there are many types of culture born and developed by people. And one of it, the one that I am going to talk is the Facebook Culture.
Facebook was founded by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg who was born in White Plains, New York to a Jewish family and raise in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Born in May 14, 1984, he is currently one of the youngest (at 26 years old) billionaires in the world with personal wealth of US$4 billion. Actually, Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook (FB) with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard and to be specific, he launched it from his dorm room on February 4, 2004. Thanks to him and his friends for inventing such innovative infrastructure in the cyberspace that had made this world become more ‘smaller’ and borderless.
Zuckerberg, in my opinion has not only invented FB for people to share their photos and thoughts, but instead had created and developed a cyberspace community with its own culture. In short span of time, relatively speaking, people of all levels from all walks of life of various faiths, globally, became united and unconsciously subscribed themselves to the community – the FB Community (FBC). Irrespective of their mother tongue languages, the FBC has its own language and literature, comprises of simplified words and emoticons, hence the FBC Jargon.
The FB allows its community to release their attitude – perception, thoughts, and disposition openly in the net (they brazenly ‘exposed’ their identities or even dignities!!!?) ; it provokes its member to defend and show-off their ego voluntarily – shamelessly; it encourages its people to talk or chat free of charge, 24 hours a day and seven days a week – hence they talk openly everything under the sun, flirting, criticizing, joking, etc., even to someone who actually they don’t know whom they never meet before; and it educates its people in many aspects, such as business, innovation, etc.
As much as we know, every coin has two sides and what I am worry about the FBC are: its people somehow or rather, had disengaged their values and principles; deviated from the religious path (need to be further elaborated though); lose their focus, thus unproductive; and devalued their dignity. This is alarming! Albeit equipped with great CPU and the fifth sense, human being, more often than not, misused or abused what had been given to them – many things. Wives sneaked around from their husbands to satisfy their crazes and addictions – chatting with their so called ‘friends’ - friends whom they actually did not have any single clue of their backgrounds, motif and agenda; through FB or any other platforms. Worst case, they chat addictively and excitingly with webcam ‘on’ adventuring their desire, hence, hooked with immoral activity denying their faith and dignity! They gave excuses to not giving attention to their husbands just to be with its community – the FBC and, of course, vice-versa. And, what astonished me, she, without feeling any guilty with pride doing it!
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