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It all didn’t start so harmlessly: In 2003, the then 19-year-old Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg, pictured above, programmed a website that would allow his friends and him to compare the attractiveness of fellow students. He called it Facemash. Users of the website were able to choose between two illegally obtained photos which they found most appealing. Word quickly spread about the project and became a hit – but feminist protests also emerged. After a short time, on February 4, 2004, the website became Facebook as we know it today: You register with your name, upload photos of yourself, and get in touch with other users through postings, “likes” and comments . A successful model.
Even though Facebook’s popularity has been declining for several years, the medium still occupies first place in the ranking of the largest social networks and messengers with around 2.96 billion monthly active users. There are a few things that can be problematic about Facebook, like other social media: the platform is responsible for wasting time and misusing data, it increases the need to market one’s own personality and increases depression. On the other hand, Facebook has also laid the foundation for many friendships, love relationships and emancipatory movements. Or even great literature. In Senthuran Varatharajah’s novel “Before the Increase of Signs”, published in 2016, an intimate dialogue unfolds between two previously unknown Facebook users – a melancholic and impressively written book.
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