![]() I’ve spent the past two months trying to figure out what Facebook means now all those semi-active accounts as the parent company has pivoted to the metaverse, then to AI. Instead, regular use of Facebook seemed normal it was what everyone around me was doing. Sometimes they did.Īll of this dates me, of course the way that Facebook enmeshed with my life as a teenager, the time I spent thinking about it was not because I was particularly internet-obsessed or popular. When I started a blog, I would post links to the things I wrote on Facebook, convinced that my friends would want to read them. I liked the weird power trip in responding to friend requests: delineating who counted as a friend and was therefore worthy of things like the artsy photo of my eyes with the colours enhanced on which had taken me an entire afternoon. I needed it so I could spend an afternoon leaning over my sister’s shoulder by the family computer in the living room, convincing her to tell her crush that he was “skux”. ![]() I needed it to see which other people my friends were friends with. I needed it to post pictures I’d taken on my digital camera, of the school dance and a camel I saw. ![]() When I was 14 I had to have a Facebook account. But with Meta signalling that Messenger may be folded back into Facebook proper, where will everyone go? Shanti Mathias explores in the final instalment of a series about how we use Facebook today. The messaging app is ubiquitous even among people who go out of their way not to use Facebook.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |