The Fake life of Facebook

The dominating social media platform Facebook makes the bold claim that the lives of our generation can be successfully represented and shared by means of Facebook. Zuckerberg's goal (and he's just about achieved it) is to make everyone's lives connected via the internet, and have that a normal part of human life. But is it genuine? Writer Zadie Smith doesn't think so. She clarifies herself though. It's not that Zuckerberg is some evil person too unconcerned to care about how our lives are captured online. That's only the sensational representation that hollywood has to shape out of his life in The Social Network. She realizes that he was only a kid who wanted to create something cool for people to freely represent themselves. But in making this website of freedom, he forgot to actually give us control, a core concept to allow freedom to exist. Facebook is too formulaic, and pushes people to only share certain things about themselves, or rather, the way in which we can express ourselves is very limited. This results in a seemingly wholesome, but limited representation of ourselves on the internet. And I think its true. My Facebook profile is only a sliver of Forrest Jackson: Just a slice of what I do, where I've been etc. But do to internet social repercussions and the websites own limitations, you can't see my true feelings, my thought processes, none of that. But will I delete it? Probably not.Facebook he created a "community" that has such a strong hold socially, that if my double life on the internet were to die, I would be missing a part of me, even it is fake... But perhaps, I'm just being a baby. Or maybe just part of a generation who can't handle the real.