"I am not good
enough" "I am tired" "I am in bed"
"depressed" these are the posts came across on my friends Facebook
wall. Every human person needs a platform to shore and express one's feelings
and sentiments. In the classic age people had several opportunities to express
their thoughts both personal and general. They had platforms like a market
square, newspapers, cafeterias etc. That more of in the context of physical
presence whilst expression of one's ideas and feelings. It was always one on
one. It was largely because of the lack of development in technology. They had
to be physically present to express their feelings and sentiments; of course
they had post mails.
The Facebook account have
crossed than a billion mark today, and India is the second after the USA to
have largest number of Facebook accounts. Facebook has made access easier
through an email account to which their account will be linked to. Let me not
discuss the technicalities of Facebook but rather concentrate on Facebook as
platform to express one’s feelings and thus lose or gain a personality.
When I meet young people
today, conversation ends with asking for Facebook friendship; worse still
Facebook itself suggests friends who you might have met for a second or seen
from distance because that friend is hooked to your friends friend. Therefore,
it’s all about friendship. Initially, when I knew nothing about Facebook, I
used to post about my goings; where I am and where I am going and so on. This
by and large made my friends to know where exactly I am.
Someone told me that Facebook
had given that person a personality, which anteriorly he did not have. What
does this mean? I was trying to unpack the statement, ‘Facebook had given
personality back’. It is true, probably the person was posting his depressing
life on the wall, and in return person’s friends replied and liked to his post
and encouraged him to start a new. Or probably person feels that Facebook is a
kind of online psychotherapy. Is it true? Facebook has its advantages and
disadvantages. I don’t have to elaborate this, since we hear about it in the
media.
Privacy is sacred for a
person; meaning to say, every one of us needs privacy, whether it’s physical or
psychological. I think the Facebook has revolutionized the concept of privacy,
in regards to one’s life. When one expresses his feelings on the Facebook, he
loses his privacy obviously, but in return the person might feel free and
relieved. This has reduced the work of going to the psychologist! Therefore
everyone know everyone, everyone knows everyone’s privacy, no more private. One
becomes a public figure. I am not judging here, whether it is good or not,
rather want to reflect with you all.
The Facebook has reduced a
physical contact with each other, since we don’t have to be present physically
to converse or express. One can sit in Brazil and express his feelings to one
who in Australia in a matter of seconds and another person in India can
complement or like the conversation or feelings expressed. Does human person
needs a physical contact in life? Most of us would say, YES, we need a physical
touch of another person to express one’s love towards the other. Every human
being needs warmth in the form of a hug or a mere handshake or an eye contact.
This is significant for us because we are social animals.
The Facebook elevates human
personality or depreciates human personality? This is the crucial question for
me. If it does, well cheers to you but if it doesn’t then we are missing a
slither in our lives.
