Blog Post #5

For this blog post I decided to write about Facebook and how it has become a source of information for most people. Today people update their Facebook profiles and statuses before anything else. When someone wants to figure out the relationship status of someone they immediately go to their profile and that is considered the ultimate confirmation about their relationship. Basically people think that if it is posted on Facebook then it is valid and cannot be wrong. When important events such as getting engaged or having a baby happen in people’s lives, their first concern is uploading a picture of their new baby or posting a picture of the ring and the happy couple, before even calling and updating their family members. I had a recent experience with one of my mom’s cousins where their daughter got engaged and immediately posted it on Facebook and telling everyone and our whole family saw and called her dad to congratulate him about it. When everyone called he had no idea what was going on because his daughter hadn’t told him about it and their whole family found out through Facebook. It is interesting to me how now people’s priorities are to update everyone on Facebook about their lives before their own family, because half the people who are our friends we either don’t know, and lost touch with but they are the ones people are rushing to tell first.