Khalil Jerdak-With Friends Like These...

“With friends like these” by Tom Hodgkinson expresses the historical background of Facebook, additionally to the founders and the investors. Also he states some of its disadvantages and talks about the huge effects that it has on its users.

Hodgkinson believes in his article that Facebook is a way which any anyone can change his identity and be any person he wants. He also mentions that Facebook became a big part of our daily use where t affected our social activities, our communication with others and became a routine. Furthermore, he highlights on the idea of connection on which people became very disconnected rather than connected.

          According to our daily experience and the excessive use of Facebook we actually became disconnected from the real world. In other words, we hide behind our screens and create a second life that we want and the identity that we want also. 

In my own opinion I see that also we can consider that Facebook is a way of connecting people. For example, friends we never heard about them from a long time or friends that are apart in different countries, which Facebook made us, reconnect with them.

 

Citation

Hodgkinson, T. (2008, January 14). With friends like these [Article History].
Retrieved from The Guardian website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/
2008/jan/14/facebook