Facebook and What It Has Done!!!

What I thought was interesting from the presents from the presentation on Thursday was the “Is Facebook making Us Forget?” piece by James Vincent in The Independent. The students who presented this piece asked the class to be ready to take a picture of a picture that they briefly showed over the projector. After they took the picture away they asked if anyone could describe the picture; very few could get very little accurate. Not that the students were smart or under observant, the students were just focused on getting a good shoot with their camera. Wait for the image to focus, wait for light to adjust, and quickly snapping a shot before the picture was gone. I knew my capabilities of my camera plus I naturally look at something before I take a picture of it so I knew my camera would not give whatever it was justice. I recognized the style from recently studying it, it was a Van Gogh. The point is that people are too concerned with posting an experience on Facebook that we forget to be a part of that experience. Even The instructor confessed to having some similar insistences of being there but not being there. Also if we have a group of pictures of a party on Facebook why need to remember an event or person when I can be put in an album categorized by date and a helpful title with people tagged with their names. If we have this information stored online of a hard drive then, according to this study, people will purposely forget names and events for the reason it is already remembered and can be accessed anywhere and at anytime. I only like that idea for those suffering for Alzheimer’s and over brain deformities when trying to remember a special event or people in general.