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EUFORIA, SIMULACRA, AND RELATIVITY OF REALITY
Yesaya Sandang & Rini Darmastuti
Faculty of Technology and Information Satya Wacana Christian University
Jl.Diponegoro 52 – 60, Salatiga 50711, Central Java, Indonesia Email: yesayasandang@gmail.com & rindarmas@yahoo.com
Abstract
Facebook as one of the social networking website has been widely accepted and
make an important impact in today’s life. As a variant of its predecessor’s website
like My Space or Friendster, Facebook bring so much more into our virtual social life. This paper tries to exam the phenomena of Facebook trough the debate between neo-Luddite on one side, and Technophile in other side. This paper also would like to describe the tension and closing between social reality and virtual social reality. While doing so, this paper will try to show few impacts that Facebook (through Internet) brings. At the end, this paper will conclude that human being needs to be more aware in finding a balance in (using) every technology euphoria.
Keywords : Facebook, Internet, Neo-Luddite, Techophilia, Simulacra, Euforia, Reality, Relativity, Social Networking, Cyberspace, Balance, Responsibility, Consequences.