Feb 10 2012 11:58 pm
Posted by kurkuri2004 under Blog Asignment
“Facebook” has brought my Destiny to me!
While I was a teen, I left my country and came here in NY to live my life alone. At the beginning, life was very miserable for me. All I had going on in my life was work and missing my friends and family. I wasn’t really having any social life. Life started to change when one of my cousin suggested that I should open a social network. Then I opened a Facebook account in 2006. I started meeting new friends and found my old friends from back home. I felt like having all of them around me even though I was thousand miles away from them.
The biggest turning point of my life while using Facebook was when I met this guy from UK named Rousseau. He was from my country(Bangladesh) and was also studying alone in Scotland. We became very close friends over the years. We never saw each other in person but started to like each other. However, I wasn’t really interested to involve in any kind of relationship. I was focusing more into my study and family. We still kept in touch as very good friends. Fortunately in 2009, we both went to Bangladesh at the same time and had a chance to meet each other. We became more certain that we wanted each other from a long time. Now, Its been almost 2 years that we’ve got married and happily living our lives. Often we remember about the times we used to spend chatting on Facebook. Now a days, I feel like Facebook had become very commercial and open to people which is harmful for it’s user’s privacy. Facebook team should be more concern about their privacy settings. There are many people who says social networks are nothing but waste of time but I strongly oppose their view. I’ve found my destiny through this social network and ended my loneliness.
7 Responses to ““Facebook” has brought my Destiny to me!”
akash on 12 Feb 2012 at 5:17 pm #
wow! thats an amazing life story, how you found someone on Facebook and u guys got married sweet! I’m glad. and yes! ur right about the privacy concern because they are a lot of stalkers and scary people out there even if people say its nothing just my name and address in their information, this actually happened a few months back when i read the article in NY POST how a girl in NJ was forced to do bad stuff and murdered because she went to meet with strangers if I’m not mistaken her name was kaylee, and due to this incident Facebook has been made several changes in their system so its more safer and reliable for their users.
mgershovich on 14 Feb 2012 at 2:51 pm #
That really is an amazing story. How did you meet Rousseau? Was he a friend of a friend? It’s really interesting how these kinds of connections happen on FB.
Can you say more about your privacy concerns around FB? How did your concerns over privacy affect your budding relationship? And what else might you say about the commercialization of FB? It seems like that was always the goal and seems to be the reason that lots of people are now choosing to close their FB accounts. There’s a new network called Diaspora that some folks are really into. It’s stated goal is to give users full control over their data and how it’s used. Take a look: http://diasporaproject.org/
Eddy Eloi on 15 Feb 2012 at 1:17 am #
I must admit this is a very fascinating story. Finding your destiny on facebook is a testimony of the importance of some of these social networks. I must say though that you are one of the lucky, and fortunate ones. A few years ago one of my very good friend thought he had met his soul mate on Hi5. He travelled all the way from the Caribbean to Canada to meet her just to be left stranded at the airport. A few days later on his return home he found out his soul mate was an imposter.
Anil Persaud on 15 Feb 2012 at 8:45 am #
This is like a fairy tale, but I have to agree that Facebook has become so commercialized that it has taken the more personal part out of its main objective – to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
kurkuri2004 on 15 Feb 2012 at 4:07 pm #
Thanks everyone. I know i’m lucky :). people hardly believe that i’m married to my Facebook friend. Professor you wanted to know how i met him. He added me as a random friend on fb. We never knew or met each other before. We only met twice before our wedding in Bangladesh. And My privacy concern around FB is it has privacy settings menu where you can customize how you want to be viewed or share your info . But i’ve heard from many people that even though you customize your privacy settings FB doesn’t maintain it. There are also many pages available on Fb now. If you “like” the page you become a page member and they use your information. So i felt that FB had become very commercial.
Ana on 16 Feb 2012 at 10:29 am #
What a wonderful story! I am happy that facebook was useful to connect to your soulmate, I heard of programs that track your information and connect you with people that has the same likes, because sometimes is not so easy to get along. It is one of the advantages of facebook to get to know interesting people that could be anywhere.
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