Out of class essay 1- MY FACE TO THE WORLD

MY FACE TO THE WORLD

In this world there are different kinds of people. Everyone is different from others and everyone has their own identity. Every individual represents themselves to the world in some or the different way. In this competitive world, everyone wants to be the best and hence wants to represent themselves in the best possible way. I am going to talk that how I represent myself to the world i.e. to my friends, my cousins, my family and my employers. I use facebook to represent myself to this world.
Facebook is the most popular social networking site in the USA. It is one of the most effective tool to represent ourselves to the world. Your facebook page not only gives you a different identity but also lets you stay in touch with your friends, colleagues, employers and anyone around the world you know. Anyone can join facebook. It is really easy to join facebook. People can join different networks on facebook i.e. they can join the network of their school, place where they live, place where they work or study and many other networks and get connected to their friends. Other people in your network can also see your facebook page and know you. For example, if you join network of your high school, all the people from your high school can see your facebook page. In this way your facebook page represents you to your school. With your facebook page you can represent yourself not only to people you know but also to complete strangers.
Facebook page lets you share your personal and academic information with others. You can share your academic information like your high school name, college name, your major and year of graduation. You can also show the courses you are taking or have taken through various applications on facebook page. Facebook applications also allow you to show your employment history which can be really beneficial for your future employers. I use all these features to represent my academic record on my facebook page. One can easily recognize all my academic achievements by looking at my facebook page.
Facebook can be used to share personal information as well. People having access to my facebook page can see my relationship status, birth date, my religion and all those activities I am involved in and what all I enjoy doing. They can also see what movies I like and what books I enjoy reading. Besides this, they can find out what kind of person I am by looking at my photos. I have many photo albums which can represent me like I have albums from the past family vacations and various important family events. This shows that I am really close to my family. I have many applications on my facebook profile associated with soccer which shows that I play soccer and also a big fan of ‘Manchester United’. Facebook also has application where we can write notes which are shown on our facebook page. I have written various such notes for various events expressing my views. Besides there are various other applications where I can do a lot of stuff like play games, show my top friends, show the events I am attending and play music.
Facebook is also very useful besides providing personal and academic information. Some applications like ‘marketplace’ can be used by people to sell and buy various things listed in the application. I have personally sold and brought a lot of things at good prices using this application. It can also be used as an advertising medium by various companies and associations.
I think facebook is a powerful medium to represent myself to the outer world. I put up my information which I want people to know. Being an international student, it has helped me stay in touch and get updates with my friends and family which are thousands of miles away in a different country. It is much easier to know about person by looking at his profile instead of asking him. This tool is really helpful for employers to know about the person they are employing. Facebook is one of the fastest growing social sites and I think it is really effective medium to represent ourselves to this world. It is reightly described as ‘a social utility that connects you with the people around you’.