Facebook exchange of 'stuff'

In this week’s lecture topic Kuttainen (2013) discusses the concept of how networks have impacted trade: as she states that “digital technology has already rocked the media.” The social network of Facebook is global (McNeill, 2012, pp. 103). Facebook is connected to the real life products, goods and exchange. This is evident through the facebook page ‘Mareeba Buy Swap and Sell.’

Within the space and place of the Facebook page ‘buy swap and sell’ you can collect, buy/swap “stuff,” such as furniture, house appliances, car parts and even little things such as kids toys. The buy swap and sell page also intertwines posts regarding garage sales. This creates the allusion that Facebook does influence the community’s trade and exchange corporations (member of facebook). People generally buy or collect “stuff” from the Facebook page and then “turn them into products at home and market them globally from a garage” sale (The economist, 2012); well in this sense take the products to the bigger community outside of the social network of Facebook.

Image 1: Example of garage sale posts on FB

Through the social network of Facebook’s page ‘Mareeba buy swap and sell’ it has developed significant connections between individuals and the community.

References

Kuttainen, V. (2013). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place. Lecture 8: Stuff. [PowerPoint Slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu.edu.au

McNeill, L. (2012). There is no “I” in network: Social networking sites and post human auto-biography. In biography, 35(1), 101-118.

The Economist. (2012). The third industrial revolution. Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/21553017

 

 

 

Image 1: Example of garage sale posts on FB. Retrieved from http://images.search.conduit.com/ImagePreview/?q=Facebook+garage+sale+posts+&ctid=CT3245481&SearchSource=15&FollowOn=true&PageSource=Results&SSPV=&CUI=UN42257247402125933&UP=&UM=1&start=0&pos=6