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Ritual and Stereotypes:  Facebook

Facebook has become widely popular in the past few years. Everyone has been so addicted to facebook and it has become a ritual for all of us to log in and post our personal thoughts or pictures and look into updates from our friends too. A ritual means things that are being done in the same way from a very long time. Facebook has made the world so narrow that it has stop people from meeting eachother. Because they can look into their lives through facebook and there is less use of time in doing so. They have made facebook a part of their daily life. It is so easy to get connected to the people we know through facebook and today they can log in facebook through their phone which they have with them 24/7, this is one of the main reason why facebook is so popular.

Facebook has become a ritual to everyone these days. And I don’t disagree that it hasn’t become to me either because even I log on to facebook everyday just to check what’s going on in my friend’s life or just to play the free game that we get in facebook. I am a game lover so I play temple run in facebook which is quite fun and very interesting too. Some of my friends also have the habit of posting funny pictures from different pages which has been quite popular these days.

And talking about facebook stereotype people think that through facebook our life has become too much public which I think is false because we can only share things to people which we want to because we have all kinds of privacy settings in facebook through which we can control what we want to show and what we don’t want. And they say many of the children these days areusing facebook which may hamper their studies and their life but I think it is upto the parent’s guidance because they should give their children a certain time limit of how long they can use the internet or facebook. Another thing that I have in mind is those people who do not have a facebook account are asked with a lot of questions by others and have been also called anti-social but I don’t think so because it is upto them and their own wish to own a facebook account or not.

I never thought about the rituals and stereotypes about facebook but as I have thought about it there are so many of them. But still I think it is just people’s individual perception towards facebook which is sometimes true but isn’t all the time. I think facebook is a great social networking site which has made our life very easy and fun at the same time to know what’s going on around the world.