From Facebook’s storytelling…
Early 2014, I was amazed with new feature of FB: Never
before can I easily look back to history of my own. Want to see what happened
today last year, or 10 years before? Well, just go to http://facebook.com/todayinhistory
and choose the date you want. As soon as
you do, new feeds of that particular day will be displayed and will make you
feel nostalgic and complicated. Yes, it is a mixed feeling when you look back
at your difficult moments and compare them with your current happy moments, or
vice versa.
Same things happened with me when I looked at my friends’ “2013
video” at the end of 2013. As its name suggests, this video was basically a story
combined of most-like photos and status that I had posted throughout 2013, ingeniously
played in the theme of harmonious background song. Again, I felt nostalgic and
complicated. It happened with many of my friends and many people around the
world too. I bet if you experienced this, you would have felt the same. However,
whatever you feel, you could not deny that was is so tempting and appealing to watch
again and again the stories, except this time they were not only about
yourself, but also about your friends. I was so engaged with the stories, and
facebook is the charismatic teller who told stories of myself and my friends. At
that moment, I realized that I like hearing stories, my friends like hearing
stories and many people around the world like hearing stories. Maybe we all
like hearing stories.
