| Molly Falvo |
| Image One: People of all cultures and ethnicities joined on a Facebook map of the world |
The internet is only a recent and new thing to our world only being created in the 1900's and since then it has made endless changes to both our world and the way that we view it and the people in it being us the human race. Since the internet started many years ago it has come a long way especially in the way that people use it these days for example the internet these days is mostly being used for social media. As seen in the previous blog my social media outlet is Facebook and many people use this social media form to express their feelings and share parts of their life almost like it is a second home for them. "Places are also used for awaking certain feelings like comfort, security, belonging, being anchored, self-expression, and freedom to be oneself" (Smaldone et al., 2005).
While the internet and Facebook can be a place for people to speak their opinions and have freedom to speak for them selves it also brings terrible things such as cyber-bullying and harassment which you will find on any social media or internet site. "There is a moral dimension to speech as there is to physical action.Thus conversation between friends can make the place feel warm; by contrast, malicious speech has the power to destroy a place's reputation" (Tuan, 1991). This is a quote from Tuan that i have pulled from one of our readings from class this week titled Language and the making of Place: A Narrative-Descriptive Approach. When it comes to virtual networking and space and place Tuan is absolutely right the words and the language in which we say things shapes how we feel as a place and as a community both in real life and online on social media sites such as Facebook. Facebook is a very handy tool used by many to promote businesses and also persuade people to but their products and change their views on things both political and non-political. This is where Facebook comes in handy and shows peoples true self and the way that they tall to others which has changed my view on a lot of people i used to call my friends and i used to look up to which just shows how powerful the internet is in relation to space and place. The internet is only going to keep growing and rising as long as the relationship with it between space and place is maintained.
References
Tuan, Yi-Fu. (1939). Space and Place: Humanistic Perspective. Lecture 5: Space and Place [Readings]. http://geog.uoregon.edu/amarcus/geog620/Readings/Tuan_1979_space-place.pdf
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quote by Smaldone
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