Escapism from Real Life
Facebook is a social networking website intended to connect friends, family, and business associates. It is the largest of the networking sites, with the runner up being MySpace. It began as a college networking website and has expanded to include anyone and everyone. Facebook users can create a profile page that shows their friends and networks information about them. The choice to include a profile in a network means that everyone within that network can view the profile. The profile typically includes the following: Information, Status, Friends, and Friends in Other Networks, Photos, Notes, Groups, and The Wall.
The internet or most specially the Facebook is certainly a form of escapism for people to distress themselves. Besides Facebook, there is also other form of escapism such as travelling, alcohol consuming, binge drinking, watching television, collecting doll and dreaming.
Travel is a perfect form of escapism where travel as means to escape from their empty and unsatisfying lives—as if frequently changing their location would offer fulfillment. Whether it’s from a bad relationship or not, a job you hate, or simply a boring and sedentary life, sometimes you feel like you just need to get away. You can trade in whatever is making you unhappy for something different, even if it’s just for a little while. Seeing other parts of the world and immersing you in foreign cultures open up completely new avenues of discovery. Travel in itself can be educational, and can open your eyes in ways you never thought possible. When you’re out on the road meeting new people and opening up to new experiences, you may find that you are also slowly reinventing yourself or perhaps letting the self you’d like to be finally emerging.
Travel allows you to escape but sometimes escaping can take the form of running away. Whether it’s that bad breakup or loss of a job, sometimes you just want to leave it all behind and do something crazy, like move 10,000 miles away for a while.
The internet or most specially the Facebook is certainly a form of escapism for people to distress themselves. Besides Facebook, there is also other form of escapism such as travelling, alcohol consuming, binge drinking, watching television, collecting doll and dreaming.
Travel is a perfect form of escapism where travel as means to escape from their empty and unsatisfying lives—as if frequently changing their location would offer fulfillment. Whether it’s from a bad relationship or not, a job you hate, or simply a boring and sedentary life, sometimes you feel like you just need to get away. You can trade in whatever is making you unhappy for something different, even if it’s just for a little while. Seeing other parts of the world and immersing you in foreign cultures open up completely new avenues of discovery. Travel in itself can be educational, and can open your eyes in ways you never thought possible. When you’re out on the road meeting new people and opening up to new experiences, you may find that you are also slowly reinventing yourself or perhaps letting the self you’d like to be finally emerging.
Travel allows you to escape but sometimes escaping can take the form of running away. Whether it’s that bad breakup or loss of a job, sometimes you just want to leave it all behind and do something crazy, like move 10,000 miles away for a while.