Assignment 1-4-2: Written Analyses-Analysis 1

Analysis about Facebook

First off, what does popular beliefs, myths, and icons mean? Popular beliefs are often made up of all the influences and experiences that surround us. Our beliefs come from our heart and our mind. Everything that touches our lives does leave an imprint of some sorts. Sometimes there can be a tendency for a group conformity and mentality that can be a threat to our individuality. Our beliefs can be self-created or it can be drawn from an outside source. On another note, my perception of a myth is an invented idea, story, or concept or an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. Furthermore, an icon is an image, sign, picture, or representation that stands for its object by virtue of an analogy or resemblance to it.

In my opinion, it seems that all the theories above do apply to my popular culture topic, Facebook. The theories (popular beliefs, myths, and icons) describe Facebook as being a successful world-wide communication and entertainment internet website that connects people from many different parts of the world. Many people from different countries and cultures take advantage of the access to this website so that they can communicate and have entertainment that might not necessarily be accepted into their cultures. In conclusion, the insights that I gain from applying the theories such as popular beliefs, myths, and icons to my popular culture topic Facebook are that beliefs can be subject to change by the access to Facebook and the connection with different cultures, there can be myths about certain cultures that can be discussed and the truth becomes known through communication that is provided by such websites as Facebook, and due to the increasing amount of people logging onto Facebook makes this website an icon of some sort because icons are not only people but objects, or should I say websites, that influence people’s life in some way.