Katie Roiphe “The Language of Fakebook” contemplates that Facebook is taking over many of teens lives, being time consuming, taking social skills, making people jealous and lying to themselves and everyone else, because of this it makes Facebook overpowering of lifes. The author when looking over posts saw that most people are adding unnecessary words that could easily be taken out to make it more realistic, which said, The author when examining Facebook found things that teens posted that said, “I write more enthusiastically on Facebook than I actually am in real life. Like if I see something remotely funny I might say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA,’ when really there is no expression on my face” (1). This is only one example of when teens use enthusiasm to make them appear more excited/sad, (whatever they’re feeling). …show more content…
The author then goes on to discuss that Facebook is taking social skills from people, and that in the medieval days it was different, furthermore that people want to impress people so they take photos from other people’s accounts claiming to be there to make them look cool, it’s hard to tell what is fiction or real now. Roiphe looks at a few posts where people have the same picture/video posted onto two different accounts, “A video of a kiss at the World Cup was posted on Natalie’s page just minutes before one of Hannah’s real friends posted the same thing” (1-2). This example shows just how a lot people on Facebook get their “tumblr” pictures that they so call their own. Which proves the point that people take people's posts to make them look more