Social solitude

Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has been a huge thing. Hundreds of millions go online every day to socially interact with their friends in several distinguishable communication platforms. This daily action has flushed out the regular, fysical interaction by meeting people face to face. Is this a positive developement, or will this be the end to close friendships?

Endless entertainment

A social media is a meeting place which people from around the globe can experience multiple social activities. The most popular one, Facebook (with over 1.3 billion users), presents each individual with an enormous universe of ways to connect with people. There is no limit to how much content you can access and share. This makes Facebook, as many other social medias, what is called an infinity machine; It gives you endless scrolling trough endless streams of content. Therefore, these medias are enormously time consuming.

Starved or stuffed?

Of course, social interactions has two sides. You can not expect something without giving something else away. In this case, you recieve an amazing world of online experiences, not to mention the small-scale interactions with your most loyal friends. The downside of all this is the fact that people are simply ignoring the “old fashioned” face-to-face interactions which has passed on for several human generations. Therefore, we are met with a dillemma whether the humanity should preserve the old fashioned forms of communitaction, or if the modern should prevail.

In the end,

..there really is not any excuse for not using social medias now a days. You will find mostly everything you are looking for there, and the fact that the society expects you to be there, most people are. As the world grows, so does the need to explore. Therefore, the social pressure is something we all will have to adapt to.

(I realized afterwards this may not answer the task, but rather something exam-like. Sorry about that)

A tour at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo

As we started the tour, we were presented with a sort of “hall of fame”-wall with famous quotes from famous people. You could see several meaningful bits of text written or spoken by meaningful people - some more known than others.

The other part of the tour consisted mostly of the world’s democratic values. We were shown a heat map which provided information about how democrazy is spread troughout the world. Some parts of the world still has mainly autocrazy ways of steering, where there is nothing but one party which leads the entire country. A few examples is North Korea and China, whereas there is few or none ways for people to vote or participate in political conflicts and debates.

Raging on the top, Norway along with the other scandinavian countries and Canada are some of the most democratic countries in the world. With open, free elections and very few restrictions of free speech, Norway stands proudly as a fully developed democratic state.

The last thing we were shown was a video about Edward Snowden; a man widely recognized as a major whistleblower for the NSA. This stately owned corporation have for several years done surveillance at U.S. citizens without their acceptance. Therefore, this discovery has been highly controversial in the media all over the globe. This also inflicted on the US international relationships, as Snowden had proof that the US did surveillance at the German rikskansler.

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