Its all Because of Facebook

A couple of days ago it was my birthday, as part of a social experiment I decided to see how many people remembered. Without remembering the all important factor that of which is the internet and more specifically. Now lets be honest and say how many people did actually know it was the day I was born? And the truth is it wouldn't be to many. And as depressing/attention seeking as this sounds, this is the beauty of Facebook. We no longer have to remember any upcoming dates for events and birthdays. All the information required can be found within a few passwords and clicks.

Facebook like any online community shall I say, is a web based society where we are able to comment each other, finding out what is happening and even have some fun playing one of the many Facebook applications. Enough of me explaining because clearly if you know what blogspot is you'd probably already know what facebook is about.

While all of this is cool and dandy, the thing I want to bring up is not how much money I lose playing poker(on facebook of course), but this one topic that is always on my mind. And that is simply the fact that people can upload absolutely any photo for the world to see. It is usually just standard photos with people posing and their peace fingers sticking up. And that is fine but every so often we would come across those photos we would consider embarrassing.

Now these photos would be a picture with let's say a boy and a girl, and we all know what that means their going out! Another example of this could be a boy and a boy and yeah I think you know what I am talking about. Often enough I find that I am the victim of this. A comment about it would be fine, but when it leads to a page worth of discussion and further discussion beyond the bounds of the internet (real life), that's when it begins to become a little annoying.

Since the internet has come this far all these things are bound to happen in due time. And in time we just learn to adapt to flow with technology. I say we go back to creating rumors about the couple sitting in the back and actually remembering important dates you silly conformist. But thats just how the cookie crumbles.

"It's not official unless its on Facebook" - Jon Tran

Peter.