{"id":42,"date":"2012-05-30T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.al-t.co.uk\/?p=42"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:11:18","slug":"facebook-our-cultural-black-hole-piece-for-journalism-module","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-t.co.uk\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Our Cultural Black hole (piece for journalism module)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am arriving at this review six years after Facebook\u2019s inception, but as its endured more so than Myspace and with the grandiose announcement of the Queen joining up (which no one outside the victory service club cares out, ) maybe a review is not a lost cause. Before exploring the crippling hits against Facebook, Here are the positives;<\/p>\n<p>Conspicuous at face value, is enabled contact with lost friends, by searching for any given name a long-lost friendship can be rekindled. Information apropos of topical discussion is also easy to collate using hyperlinks, photo display and Hashtagging. It\u2019s easy to extend a simple exchange into a corroborated symposium.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also congenial for hobbyists, societies and business establishments to advertise without paying out a website premium for hosting, as well as Facebook\u2019s innumerable subscribers acting as a latent by-product of increased exposure.<\/p>\n<p>However, Facebook can be like a legitimised black hole, sucking one\u2019s time until the entropic hindrance of responsibility leads to the being fired, arrested or in some cases killed.<\/p>\n<p>Superfluous third party apps such as Q and A applications regarding clandestine friend relations or making a virtual Farm are other things that are taking up spare time that people don\u2019t have, reinforcing the notion that there is an omission of the prefix \u201canti\u201d to the term \u201csocial network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Surfacing also are hate groups of virtual effigy immortalising trivialities like an individual\u2019s infidelity to switching to I-phone over the cumbersome QWERTY interface of Blackberry, like it actually matters. When these exemplars are taken seriously, the results can be distressing. Results like Cody Turner\u2019s murder over derisive remarks made about his dead relative on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The idiom \u201chaving one\u2019s cake and eating it\u201d comes to mind here; with overwrought applications allowing for\u00a0procrastination or scathing remarks, Facebook really needs to reconsider what should be available.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am arriving at this review six years after Facebook\u2019s inception, but as its endured more so than Myspace and with the grandiose announcement of the Queen joining up (which no one outside the victory service club cares out, ) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-t.co.uk\/?p=42\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portfolio"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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