Impacts of facebook 史慧娟 1048316

Nowadays, social medium, such as Facebook, jump into great popularity among younger generation. Instead of talking with each other face to face, young people are apt to share their emotions on facebook which aims to promote relationships between people. However, it has also led young people to publicly announce their intimate personal details without considering consequences. For example, a college student approached her teachers in the hall with a smile and said," I won't be in class next week because I have to terminate a pregnancy." Then, what indeed brings about this phenomenon?
On one hand, due to the developed network, we are forced to be encircled by mixed information online. Some press deliberately exaggerate an event so as to create a sensation and some even spread false news or intimate information of stars in order to gain large hit clicks. Thus, such exaggerated and extremely personal information is commonplace. Young people, as the group who spend the most time surfing online, have become so used to these kind of information that they do not view them abnormal or hard to be accepted. Thus, they will often share their intimate issues on facebook and such attitude is adopted in daily life that they announce private things with people who they do not so familiar with.
On the other hand, we know that young people, at this age, yearn for attention from other people. They will rack their brains and try every available tactics to make themselves attractive. Usually, they will publicly announce their intimate details or exaggerate what they have seen and heared to make others stunned and interested in them.
However, the strange thing is that those gregarious young people turn silent when asked about things that used to be considered innocuous, like family background or colleges they previously attended. How does this contradiction exist? I think two main reasons can be response for it.
Firstly, at this age, some of the young people's three contemplations（三观）have been tortured. They can not rightly recognize what is right and what is wrong, what is normal and what is abnormal. Under this circumstance, they think nothing of sending out personal messages that would make many of us blush but then turn around to perceive seemingly innocuous questions as "judgmental" or "disrespectful".
Secondly, sometimes the private things they present before us are not genuine and the reason why they publicly announce it is that they want to conceal something that they are ashamed of. For example, someone put a beautiful seascape and luxurious hotel on his facebook with the words, "every summer I will come here for vocation". We may predict that he is rich, which he wishes to think so. However, the truth is that he is not so rich or maybe he is poor! Of course, these people are afraid of and escape this "family background" question.
Thus, facebook is not a totally good production of the information age and it is wise for us to remain neutral to those young people's status in order to be in a dilemma.