On Facebook

Jotting thoughts down

On Facebook
Whom do I see on Facebook?
- Material-Elite young Vietnamese who claim international travel, fun and happy hang-out times, and complain about their academic/work/love pressure.
- Intellectual-Elite young Vietnamese who claim complex thoughts over social matters and ask for popular votes to attend international conferences to hopefully affect future changes.
- A few complaints here and there, but most of the times, happy pictures, quotes, statuses.

If I (or a fellow young Vietnamese) spend too much time on Facebook, here's the thinking trap:
- Happiness is given. Everyone else is happy, why am I not? Girls look cute. Guys compliment their pictures. Girls are popular. Guys comment on their walls. What are the consequential emotions? Envy, Depression, Racing not for what's meaningful for ourselves but for public performance.
- The ease of enjoying life. It is given. We are talented and young.

As a media channel, Facebook is indeed shaping our own identities. We change ourselves, consciously or unconsciously, according to this online channel and their members' expectations. Will I, feeling disastrous as this thought, see a young elitist Vietnamese generation, all about envious and competing for * happiness * and take their privilege as given?