by Sumbo Tinarbuko
Prof. BJ Fogg, organizer of courses Psychology of Facebook at Stanford University, as quoted by Kompas Sunday (15/3/2009) asserted,''Facebook now won because placing friends in important positions. The way we are friends form our experience on the internet. There is no better technology than our friendship.''Opinion of Prof. BJ Fogg agreed Yasraf Amir Piliang. In his view the phenomenon of facebook (FB) will lead to the simplicity of communication become cheaper, easier, all directions. Model of open communication and allow the promo: ideas, ideas, and even knowledge. ''This is the phenomenon of open society. Image, image and other excesses established itself widely,''limitless, said lecturers FSRD ITB (Tinarbuko, 2009:13).
Thus, McLuhan's line of thinking about the medium that comes from the change and then lead to changes in parallel, then it proves that the FB into a new virtual public space for the majority of its members. Many simple interpretation that arise from this phenomenon. When viewed from the perspective of psychology, particularly social psychology, implied that many people are actually very thirsty with social interaction. FB proves why social interaction is social infrastructure. How people in this world has fallen and deceived by the quest for money and justify everything for money and they all need social interaction.
Honesty must be admitted, FB then becomes the new virtual public space, especially the opportunity to glue the old friends, lost friends, or greet someone distant location. Or even memeroleh new friends.
More mutakhirnya human civilization, must be recognized the need for a new public space has increased as well. It was a staple of every human being who always wanted to socialize with others. If such essential requirements are not met, it is suspected mental illness led to such a psychopath or paranoid schizophrenia. This means that each human beings need a new public space for reriungan with anyone in any circumstances.
Regardless of the pros and cons of the existing, true as social beings, humans always want to socialize and communicate with each other. In a fabric of one's communication process involved in it would want to convey a verbal and visual messages. The hope, the message can be understood by the person receiving the message. On the basis of that kind of thinking that created FB. In addition FB is always facilitate and provide audio-visual communications media so that a person needs to recognize, acknowledge and deliver a message to other human beings can be met by cheap, easy, and fast.
When reading and listening to the status of the fesbuker posted on the wall facebooknya respectively, must be acknowledged, entirely a mental representation of the fesbuker healthy and independent in his opinion.
Independence expressed the opinion through the medium of FB in the context of virtual reality, can be interpreted as a birth of a new public space for modern society. This phenomenon became a new phenomenon for Indonesian society in particular and the world community generally begin to show new features as a society tinarbuka (open) and egalitarian.
The phenomenon of virtual reality created contradictions and paradoxes come up. In it looked aspect of opposition Binner: noisy and quiet. Noisy but empty. Related to that, on the one hand, the fesbuker (FB user name) to find the fabric of communication: as if to close the virtual. Relationship of fesbuker more liquid, and egalitarian. They also got a new public space to show narsismenya nature. But, in another corner, FB also keeping the issue: first, if people have enough with virtual communications only, then would lose the fesbuker physical touch of humanity. Second, if the fesbuker addicted to FB then they will enter the virtual reality phenomenon. A circumstance that makes the social reality of the relationship with relatives, neighbors, and society at large, is significantly reduced.
When the fesbuker preferred medium to communicate with virtual devices. As a result of derivatives, Hospitality in the realization of human physical intimacy, slowly evaporate. In another negative point, FB impressed mendangkalkan humanism. FB has a strong magnet to reduce the desire for physical meetings are intimately human. This means, FB faithfully fesbuker connect the virtual, but at the same time keep the fesbuker of social reality.
Even though such a phenomenon in the realm of reality FB vitual hard to avoid. He became a phenomenon of the contemporary world. Its existence was like as a marker dikokohkan era in the digital age. Why? Because virtual reality is said to be one diaku terminals present the latest achievements of this culture.
*) Sumbo Tinarbuko, Lecturer Visual Communication and FSR ISI Yogyakarta''Book Author Fesbuker Listening Walls Galangpress''Multicom Publishing Group, July 2009. This article appeared in the Daily Radar Jogja, Friday July 24, 2009. Selengkapnya...









