Facebook

Facebook is full of important information. Most people believe that facebook is a pastime that basically just wastes time. When in reality, facebook is one of the most important social institutions of all time. Facebook has an exclusive image. At one point only college students were allowed to have a facebook, so instantly the culture of college students was pumped into the many pages of facebook. As students mature, it seems as if they use facebook less. Freshmen are extremely into it, and graduate students barely seem to be in use of it. The facebook image is constantly being re-constructed. In the group page that I looked at, facebook inadvertently defined race and class. The group is called book swap. One of my close friends created the group because she sold her psychology book to the bookstore and received thirty dollars. The bookstore proceeded to sell the book for over one hundred dollars, giving them over a two hundred percent profit. Out of her anger, she created a group centered on helping students, and hurting the bookstore. This is very apparent because the picture representing the group is a picture of the bookstore crossed out. Immediately she constructs the class of those involved. Those who belong to the upper class would buy all of their books new, and not care about the cost. By joining this group, people obviously want to save money, so it places them in at most middle class. Another thing that this group constructs is race. On the wall of this group there are nine wall posts. All nine of these individuals are white, and a majority are girls. In no way is this group a supremacist group of any kind, nor is it a group that has unethical laws. I’m sure that Rebecca had no idea that her group would reflect the things that it does. According to this group, only white individuals are looking for a deal, and women are more persistent than men. By being in this group it already has been decided that you are a white individual that is not high class. This group has seventy four members, and they are defined by nine wall posts and a picture, because that is what represents them.