Have you ever wanted to transcend space and time? Well now you can in three easy steps! Step 1- Sign into Facebook, step 2 – choose a friend and write something on their wall, and step 3- press POST! Congratulations! You have just experienced the wonderful world of technology!
Not quite understanding how Facebook just helped you transcend time and space? Well with the handy dandy reading of this blog post, you will too understand the wonders of Facebook! First we must start off with the internet with which we are capable of transmitting information faster and more efficiently than ever before! Back in the day, when you wanted to communicate with a person, you had to travel ALL the way to go see them (or send someone) to deliver your message. And if you had sent your message via a messenger, you had to wait ALL the way for them to come back to relay the response! This of course took a considerable amount of time. However with applications such as Facebook and other online social networking sites you can send a message, and if the other person happens to be on Facebook at the same time, even if they are all the way across the world, they will receive the message right away and fire a response right back which will appear at your end instantaneously! No longer do you have to wait for the inconveniences of waiting around for that lazy messenger to come back with your reply, or have to resort to travelling ALL the way to see the person JUST to deliver a message. The internet and Facebook allow us to transcend the limits of space and the accompanying time of travel to be able to communicate instantaneously – this causes what Mcluhan calls the global village where our sense of time and space have become compressed, and access to the world seems limitless. So next time you feel like experiencing the joys of transcending time and space, just sign on to Facebook and leave a buddy across the road, or across the world a message!
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