Having never read the book or seen the screen adaptation I don't feel that I am adequately armed to comment on the detail. However you raise a very good point with regards to narrating one's own story
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I find Facebook the strangest of them all. I mean, I pretty much accept an add from anyone on Facebook, providing I have actually met them/internet met them at some point in my life. There are very few people I know and speak to on a regular basis that don't have an account. And I watch these people tell their darkest secrets, have public slanging matches and close-to-breakdowns in such a public forum, and I just.don't.get.it. I don't mind posting bits of my day, random thoughts and chatting to people, but my dear family seem to think it's perfectly acceptable to sling all their dirty laundry out in public all over the internet. And I just think, this is what you're leaving behind. This is what people will think of you, remember you for, years from now. I'll keep my truly personal to the corners of the internet I can filter satisfactorily, thank you very much
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You make a lot of awesome points here. Wish I could answer more detailed, but I actually haven't watched the movie.
Yes, sometimes it really scares me how public some people make their lives (and that of others, too) without even thinking about it nowadays.
We're living in a time where it's apparently "suspicious" if you don't have a Facebook account and post half your life there. I'm a really private person for a lot of reasons, so learning that the lack of FB actually would be a reason to not be hired if you apply for a job in certain companies around here really makes me wonder how far things have gone in our society.
Really? That's quite terrifying. Facebook has weaved itself so calmly into the way we socialise that it's hard to imagine how we'll ever get away from it.
Yes... sadly. I know from several family members and friends who happen to be members of committees that decide on new hires (in one case it's about hiring trainees in the others regular employees) and they all confirmed to me that googling the candidates and looking for their appearances in the big social networks is part of the process.
In one case (a small company that provides computer services) a "nice and clean" Facebook is a requirement to be hired. If job applicants don't have a FB account or if there are any hints of excessive partying, they simply aren't hired.
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Yes, sometimes it really scares me how public some people make their lives (and that of others, too) without even thinking about it nowadays.
We're living in a time where it's apparently "suspicious" if you don't have a Facebook account and post half your life there. I'm a really private person for a lot of reasons, so learning that the lack of FB actually would be a reason to not be hired if you apply for a job in certain companies around here really makes me wonder how far things have gone in our society.
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In one case (a small company that provides computer services) a "nice and clean" Facebook is a requirement to be hired. If job applicants don't have a FB account or if there are any hints of excessive partying, they simply aren't hired.
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