& Callon, 1988), to “the rest of the internet,” it additionally shapes itself into a social actor
that plays an essential role in how people live their life in Yangon. Not only through the
convenience for communication, planning and other practicalities in everyday life, Facebook
is also a big part of the emotional life of young adults, a part of how they make decisions and
a part of a process of liberation.
Facebook has, as we have seen, without a doubt, become important to people’s life in
Yangon. Facebook seems to be somewhat ubiquitous; it is everywhere and taken for granted
in most occasions. The whole system and the infrastructure that Facebook is becomes clear
through the way Facebook makes itself essential to local users. Throughout the thesis, in the
discussions of the fonts, emotion and later Facebook addressed as a social actor in the terms
that it can be, and has been, misused to forward one specific narrative. It is then easy to
recognize how my informants are entangled with Facebook in the day to day life, and how
Facebook has become the platform through one perform sociality, it is the main access point
to gain information. Additionally, Facebook is in Yangon educational, entertaining, a
platform which allows a flirt, a space to show emotion and in general, to people in Yangon, a
place that makes it possible to be a part of “the rest of the world.”
Even though Facebook has become this significant platform and positioned itself as “the
internet” in Yangon, it does not naturally follow that the Burmese people are loyal to
Facebook, because of “Facebook.” As Miller said about the Trinidadians, I would argue that a
similar view follows in Yangon as well. If there where another platform able to deliver the
same services, there is no apparent reason to stay loyal to Facebook (Daniel Miller, 2011, p.
203). As this thesis has addressed, the road to Facebook as the internet through the use of
smartphones has been short. Instead of using the browser application, one uses Facebook.
Whenever you would buy a smartphone, Facebook is already pre-installed, or they do this in
the store before you leave. In addition to this, information outside Facebook is often in a font
witch the given device typically does not support, Unicode, while Facebook supports both
Zawgyi and Unicode.
The thesis aimed to gain an understanding of how the given situation affects my informants,
how they understand and interpret it, and what I can understand from it.
In the theoretical framework, I positioned myself closer to Sinanan of Miller´s “theory of
attainment” than to Turkle´s view of the mediated person. Facebook in Yangon is part of
peoples lived life; it is a place where they perform their sociality; it is a place where they seek
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