In today's society technology is fastly growing and expanding all over the world. It is because of technology that we are able to share our fashion trends, culture, political views, and foods. People all over the world are able to research other cultures and contribute information about their own culture thanks to technology. Aspects of American culture have been adapted by people in other countries who find it interesting. Americans have also been able to experience aspects of foreign cultures because of technology. One of the biggest contributions to the growth of technology is Facebook. In the article "Globalization and American popular culture" by Crothers, he discusses Facebook's role in globalization. Facebook has over 800 million people worldwide accessing their website. Facebook is made it possible to bring American popular culture to a global audience (Crothers, 2012) This social networking site allows for people all over the world to create profiles and post about their culture. Knowledge of different cultures have been spread all over the world because of social networking. Facebook has made it possible for everyone to be connected.
Facebook is filled with advertisements and companies making pages for their product. What better way to get people to buy your product than to remind the every 5 minutes using ads that your product is amazing and that they should buy it?