If Kierkegaard had a facebook....

Kierkegaard believed that a man should view the world through his own lens. That is the only place a man will ever be, so that is the only place that is worth learning to be.
Every person who has a facebook puts himself in his own space. He can only view other’s spaces in this space, and other people can only see him in that space. It simulates the real world in that he can only see other people through his eyes, and they can only see what he presented to them. On the digital screen, it is slightly easier to recognize this phenomenon.
A person can only log into his own facebook account. From that account he can only make his own decisions. He can choose to write on someone else’s wall, that is the only control he has. He cannot command his friend to write on his wall. He can friend somebody, but they do not have to friend him back. He only has power over is account.
Although facebook can never be as genuine as real-life interactions, it is a sketch of what human life is like. It sounds foolish, but we can only control what we can control. Most people have heard this many times, it is Kierkegaard’s idea of striving to be subjective. It seems to trivial to “strive to become what one already is: who would take the pains to waste his time on such a task…but for this very reason alone it is a very difficult task…because every human being has a strong natural bent and passion to become something more and different” (Kierkegaard 116). People have a problem accepting that they cannot control everything. They waste their energy being frustrated or upset about things that cannot be changed.
So although Kierkegaard would probably have been perplexed to see a facebook page, he would have understood that through a facebook account a person only has one choice; subjectivity. It is a digital simulation of the real life boundaries that every human has. He is a subject, he cannot be an object. He cannot create a categorical imperative that controls all other beings. He can only control himself.
On facebook, less people will be frustrated with what they cannot control because it is not real life. On the other hand, it is a good reminder of the boundaries that one human has; the boundary of his subjectivity. That he can only control things on one end of the bargain, always. That will never change as long as he lives. The sooner he can accept that, the sooner he can move on to the more important question; how to live his life.