Facebook is
truly a place to share your life with others. I’m not talking in a creepy or
stalking way but in a way that is educational for others. Over the last four
years of college I’ve had numerous Facebook friends go on study abroad who have
had experiences that will last them a lifetime. Although, I missed them while
they were gone, at the same time I’m glad that Facebook exists. Through Facebook,
my best friend, who had gone abroad our entire junior year, could share her
story with me as it happened. I saw pictures from her first day of school, her
visiting monuments and museums, her at coffee shops, and even photos of her out
at night with her friends she had made there. Facebook makes it possible to
feel like you are right there, sharing an experience that you are not actually
apart of at all. You can essentially travel to all these different places
without every having to leave your bedroom.
Over these
past few years I’ve seen pictures of the Eifel Tower in France, beautiful
graffiti walls in Prague, my sorority sisters in front of the Trevi Fountain in
Italy, the beaches in Barcelona, Spain, the city of Budapest in Hungary, and even
pictures of one of my fellow PR majors in Romania, my favorite country. As I
click through their hundreds of pictures of their time abroad, I can only
imagine myself in each one of the pictures, wishing that I had gone abroad.
It is truly
crazy that Facebook can share a story like this. Through the pictures,
statuses, likes, check-ins, and updates, a person can really feel like they are
somewhere they aren’t. The Internet has made it easy to travel without ever
having to look up from your computer screen. I know I browse through pictures
of all over Eastern Europe, just hoping that one day I can actually visit these
places that I Google.
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