In our last class, we talked about how Facebook affects us, some more than others in many different ways. For many, Facebook is an easy way to keep in contact with old friends, make new friends, take part in new activities and for some, killing time : ). This class in particular captured my attention because we focused on how the life we live and the life on Facebook are two totally and separate things. It’s basically, someone living in two different worlds. From chapter VI, it mentions that we tend to manage the impression we show to others with caution. We try to impress, play different roles, try to expose our lives to others and also in a way, to somewhat sell “ourselves”.
For some, after a while Facebook tends to be a pain and we try to remove it from our lives by deleting the account. In the past, it was a simple thing to do but as of recent, there are many different and complicated steps one must undergo in order as to do so. Lately, it was clear that there is no such thing as deleting the account, but instead, you are temporary putting your account on lock, until you log back in and then it will be reactivated in an instant. Also, for those who spent the time to remove their account, it is also obvious that there are many different websites that by simply typing in your name, one can find each and every account they have created on various websites. With this said and done, we all can say that removing personal information online, is not as easy as it looks or they said it would be.
