Facebook Debate

[Sun]

What do you think of Facebook? Can you achieve a sort of celeb status by using it?

[Blaze]

Heh, sorry, final exam weeks has got me all over the place. I probably won't make as much sense as I potentially could.

My two cents, like I mentioned before, is that yes, facebook is a way of making people feel as if they are celebrities.
Basically, predecessors to facebook, such as myspace made public profiles a big thing, something of a fad. But usually, fads die out. I believe that because so many people caught on to it (and wouldn't let go) there was sort of a status upgrade.
You either have facebook or you don't. There only middle ground is if you don't "use" facebook, which is totally acceptable, if you have a good reason. Note, this is not a time to express your political views. Facebook is a medium of popular social practice, not a declaration of dependency or conformity.

Anyway, now that you have a page that tells everyone things about you, you have constructed your own identity. And seriously, you leave out the parts you don't want people to know (like how you watch Desperate Housewives every sunday night). Celebrities do the same thing, right? They make their own identities and hold back the things they don't want you to know.

And with every new profile picture, you show the world how pretty you are. With every new status update, you're telling the world, "hey. stop what you're doing and look at what i'm doing"
And ta-da. The mini-celebrity is born.

I rest my case =P