Last month Facebook celebrated its tenth year of existence. Initially conceived as a university networking site for sharing past papers and hangover remedies, it quickly morphed into an organism which now dominates the world, forever upending the way we communicate. It is estimated that there are just over a billion users of Facebook on a planet inhabited by roughly seven billion people.
It is inevitable that in a new online world, where evolution is achieved in a timescale of months, not millennia, a marked shift can be observed in the nature of Facebook interactions in this country. Having had its genesis here as a conduit for interactions sustaining relationships too difficult to maintain in the real world, this social networking phenomenon was a godsend for many people: keeping in touch with dear friends in the frigid north, sharing news of the brand-new baby.
Facebook is a living entity, so no one should expect that it would stay this way forever. What it has become, however, is quite interesting.Crowding the newsfeed now are self-appointed news and political analysts, gossipmongers masquerading as concerned citizens and provocateurs spoiling for a fight 24/7.
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