Facebook and I

Everybody loves the idea of leaving a legacy behind for the world to mull over, well after they are done bring alive and healthy. But the world is so full of potential legacies, every him or her are lost in translation long before they even get to a place where legends can begin to be made. Time Magazine had a prophetic vision of sorts, the year the decided to bestow the "Person of the Year" to the Everyman/woman.

In the race to leave legacies, everyone is busy documenting their lives on social platforms. A very wise french literary psycho analyst once deconstructed Adam and Eve's perception of the self. Eve, he said, looked into the flowing water soon after she was born. There, she saw a reflection of herself, and thereby her own faith in her existence, in her being, was born and reinforced. Adam on the other hand, looked upon Eve and saw his other-self in her, thereby creating the critical and constant need for this "other" to reinforce his faith in his own existence. Eve was there, Eve saw him, Eve recognised him, Eve acknowledged him, and so he believed he existed.

The phenomena of social lives and networks has to be very similar, this construer feels. Having a Facebook page and two hundred friends and a million pictures documenting crazy drunken nights, is the best way to reinforce belief in existing, and existing in a way that is deemed "cool"... for the world acknowledges it with "likes" and "shares" and "comments".

But Imagine a facebook page which similarly chronicles  life and its aspects, and has a million pretty pictures - but nobody accepts / acknowledges friend requests from this profile, nobody comments on statuses, nobody likes any pictures, and nobody shares any videos...

All of us are so like Adam after his creation, and social media is our Eve. And if the Lord Almighty loves us, Facebook had better have notifications for us every single day.