“BEING THERE: THE SUBTLE ART OF FACEBOOK UPDATES”

This article, from The New York Times and written by Virginia Hefferman, analyzes the importance of Facebook’s status update. The author asks herself what makes a great status update and explains the difference between MySpace and Facebook. The norms of society are supported in this article because updating your status on Facebook is accepted as a norm, and this is the topic being discussed. However, I did feel the topic of status updates was a little ridiculous. I feel updates are insignificant and don’t need to be analyzed. Since a discussion we had in my English class about the meaning of life, I feel that articles like these are ridiculous and that we seem take insignificant things and turn them into something bigger, when in reality, what you see is what you get. We need to stop making such a big deal out of everything.