“Facebook Official”
I would say that it’s pretty apparent that social media plays a relatively large role in our generation’s lives. After reading Ryan Cordell’s article on Facebook defriending, “Unfriending for Sanity”, (http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/unfriending-for-sanity/33405) I started to think about how we use social media to define different aspects of who we are.
I don’t know if anyone else dealt with this in high school, but I always heard people talking about making things “Facebook official”. It was almost as if something wasn’t true unless it was written on Facebook. If someone was in a relationship with someone else, it wasn’t thought of as real until it was “FBO”. Why must we post things as personal as this for all to see? It seems silly to me that people feel it’s necessary to post something on sites such as Facebook in order for it to be considered legitimate.
Did anyone else deal with the “FBO” fad?
