French Revolution to Facebook
Social media has finally made its decade. A
child prodigy Mark Zukerberg started a social networking site Facebook from his
Harvard dormitory. It was 4th February 2004 and he altered the role of
communication. Facebook became a harboring land of fantasy to communicate with
loved ones and even to find someone who matches with your views. Along with
developed countries even underdeveloped countries used it at large.
Facebook once it was criticized for its
sharing personal information. It also received some complaints but over a
period of time it became mature. They also faced many law suits against it. 31st May 2010 is been celebrated as ‘Quit Facebook
Day’. Nothing did shake its status.
17 December 2010 is known as a day
which began ‘Arab Spring’ ordinary people came on street and changed their
governments. It is a historical incidence like a French Revolution. It is only
after French Revolution who came on road to change the governments. French
Revolution changed the face of the world. Writers like Victor Hugo, William
Wordsworth, W B Yeatws, Edmund Burke,
George Bernard Shaw and very many intellects used ‘pamphlets’ as a mass
communication medium to communicate with people. It was the most powerful
intrapersonal medium of communication of that time. Writers, poets and
dramatist who were involved in French Revolution were inspired by the work of
Voltair and Jean Jack Rousseau. French revolution is a literary classic example
for the world of mankind and world of mass communication. How people use to
reciprocate the form of writing, may it be drama, poetry, news paper journalism
or a pamphlet.
‘Arab Spring’ which changed the fate
of Tunisia, Egypt ,Libya, and Yemen.
It inspired civil uprisings in Bahrain and Syria and protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Sudan.
Social networking site played major role in to it. Facebook is also used as a
modern and more effective and fast medium in India. When Anna Hazare did his
protest in Delhi people from all over India supported him. It was facebook
which joined India once again. We can proudly claim that we have witnessed the
latest communication revolution.
In 2014 when India will be approaching election soon, Facebook will play
a major role communication. Advertisers from all over the world have acknowledged
its importance. Social media and social status has become new business avenues
for business and domains of vital concern. Unfortunately we do not have
great poets, dramatist, writers or philosophers with us to lead and we no more
use the pamphlet as a mass communication tool but we need to realist the power
of mighty pen. May it be any medium, the importance of language is still intact
only the medium is changed!
Mark Zukerberg who created
Facebook which is worth of $19 Billion today and he is world’s 2nd youngest self made billionaire. Today
more than 1.2 billion people use Facebook. May it be 18th century or 2014 what is important is the
language. I remember the lines from Rumi “Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person
to another, not words.”
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