FACEBOOK: A PHILANTROPIC INVENTION?

Before the holidays, Antoine tells us about facebook and its presentation trough the film « the social network ». He presented facebook, the most popular mean of communication, as an attractive idea, useful and pleasant. According to his analysis, the “facebook generation” seems be a generation of interconnection, sharing of knowledges, but also pleasures, message or personal life.

This description, quite positive, presented facebook as an inescapable invention. And he even asks whether it could be an invention philantropic, created by a man attentive to relate most of people.

I think, as other students, that's before all it's a mean – as an other, I concede - to ear money and make profit. Certainly, at the begginig, it could just be an idea of a geek student, quite clever and gifted in computer, who imagined a large network to relate all of his university.

However, it's seems quite naïve to conserve this approach today. Facebook, as many other sites or social network in the Internet, is an industrial production. If the site had not worked, we can easy imagine that Mark Zuckerberg would continue its project for the well being of the humanity. For example, all the photos published on this site are the facebook's property. Does it's normal? A man, philanthropic and disinterested can't choose appropriate personal life of his users.

I think the polemic of the film “The social network” doesn't seem realy interesting. It's a false debate, the personal life of the facebook's creator masks the problem of facebook. In my point of view, the question of the publication of your life in facebook it's the most important.

It seems that this appropriation of personal life is one of the most important problem of this site. Various articles show that some persons, absorbed by facebook, lose the control of their personal informations. Private and professional life merge and it's create polemics

If it's a philanthropic project, it's, for me, a strange conception of the human. Of course, it's permit exchanges and finally, it can be considered as a mean of communication as an other: rapid, useful, pleasant. However, if it can create links before some persons, it remains virtual. In my opinion, there is many means to meet new persons or new idea. Facebook it's not the only way. For me, it's quite gloomy imagine a world trough a computer.

I can't compt my friends, I'm not in facebook.