Facebook is indeed a very popular way of communication among us and very well be a revolutionary online community. It lets hundreds of your friends know what you're doing, what you are about to do, and even see the events you attended by looking at the pictures you post online. All this connection leads to a feeling of intimacy that is quite different from the one we feel by actually being with other people; they're not with you but nevertheless they know exactly what you are up to.
Because your friends are "following" you on the internet, you have to be careful of your actions online. All the things you do is reflective of who you are and if you do something that is offensive or inappropriate the others will accuse of it as they would offline. So, is the whole act of being kind online making us kinder?
I believe not. It may seem like we are getting kinder but we're not. There are a few advantages to creating a new persona online; other people do not know if the content of your profile page is true or not; it is very easy to let others know the good things about you while you keep the bad things hidden. Using these advantages you can easily create a person that is very kind to others, but it is not who you really are. It is true that Facebook is like an online village that everyone knows each other. However, it is still online. When we are dealing with people offline we rarely talk of our online lives. What we do online does not change who we are.
Facebook helps us create an online life that what we would like others to know us by, but it is a separate life from the true one.
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