Facebook is getting lighter and so are we

I was just reading how Kelly Clarkson is In the middle of a new celebrity scandal for having her picture airbrushed from self magazine - For my UK readers it is an American publication, but that is nothing to what people have been talking about recently concerning Airbrushing Facebook photos, so where is this all going and why now?

I know we are all fairly proud of the way we look, but airbrushing facebook photos? Don't you think that is taking things a bit too far. I guess the reality is that we are all Z list celebs these days and so even if you are at the bottom of the list, we all do care about what we look like and how we are perceived by others, even if it is Facebook profile pictures.

I suppose its not as bad as Second Life where you create a persona from scratch, however I can see Facebook heading in that direction - where does reality finish and fantasy begin? The lines it seems are becoming increasingly blurred. We all want to be someone else, like our heroes, idols and the celebrities gracing the front of glossy magazines. Is it really a bad thing to airbrush a Facebook picture. Well we have a lot to live up to don't we?

Facebook is evolving as we speak. Even it is wanting to lose inefficiencies by producing a lighter version. I suppose it is simply a reflection of the wider economic climate and anything that makes us leaner and meaner is going to be done, quite simply because we can. That's surely not a bad thing, is it?

Everything is going lite even Facebook

It seems everything is going lite and Facebook is no exception. They are currently testing out a lite version of their online social networking site.  Its currently in the beta stage but apparently it s extremely fast. According to some users who are involved in testing Facebook lite it's a bit like Twitter. This it seems is a natural evolution for people who do not want to be bogged down with all the applications that create so much noise with Facebook at present. 

The lite version will enable it to be more portable and increase accessibility allowing user improvements in responsiveness for basic twitter-type tasks.  I'm very much looking forward to the lite version and I'm sure we'll all be adding it to our networking box of tricks.

The two faces of facebook

Social websites such as facebook are going through an evolution if not a revolution in the age of twenty-four hour business and the information age.

When I first joined facebook you looked up old friends chatted about old times and kept in touch. It seems however facebook is changing and it has to change for we are now in the information age where business is conducted twenty-four hours a day, and why not? So facebook and other social networking sites are prime targets for people to promote their businesses and other interests. This is an inevitable evolution of the pleasant land that social networking sites held.

We are all ready to accept applications to see how much of Michael Jackson you know or what type of car you are but behind these funny games there lies a deeper desire to do what is inevitable and thats to receive a reward for sharing information with friends or otherwise.

You only have to look in the property section of publications such as The Mail on Sunday to see how people are moving to all corners of the globe to live the life they had always wanted to. David and Mary in Kenya, David and Celia moving to Cornwalls Kensington and Jean-Christophe with Michelle forgetting the Rolls Royce and the Rolex and moving to their new home in Spain.

So when you are accepting the next fad for finding out your real star sign or finding out your IQ dont forget that its also a business working twenty-four hours a day.