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Can Facebook go mainstream ?




At Facebook people showcase idealistic and extreme projections of oneself. Idealism is an utopian concept and reality keep a balanced distance with it. In order to go mainstream, facebook has to become a very close ally of reality and play intermittent role in societal functions. Since, content of facebook have these two attributes of being idealist and extreme in manifestation,  it distances itself from reality. So, either facebook has to moderate itself to converge to reality or influence reality to transform into facebook ideals. Moreover, it is only a matter of scope and extent to go into these two proposed projections which should be empirically tested to draw any conclusion. Presently,  it is evident from the activities on facebook that people tend to express themselves in extreme form of expressions through filmy facebook posts, weird captions, sharing dubsmash videos or misplaced smileys. Hence, Facebook can be said to be in long queue to reach the door of reality.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 9, 2016 at 10:31 AM

    Off late Facebook is full of trolls, jokes, funny or shocking videos(more than on you tube I think..hah), unrelevant news, fake information and many more. In case you don't visit fb every hour(which is not possible for any intellectual), no of posts arriving may deprive you of enjoying lively moments of your close ones thus quashing the basic idea of any social group.

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  2. Arun TankhaJanuary 30, 2016 at 1:40 PM

    Very true..

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  3. UnknownFebruary 4, 2016 at 10:05 AM

    Have a look at this talk relevant to this discourse in context of famous Arab spring https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HiwJ0hNl1Fw

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