Koobecaf is in a league of its own. Everyone wants to be a koobecaf member. When koobecaf first started a couple of years ago it was just for college students. If you did not have a college e-mail address you were not allowed to join the network. A couple years ago high schoolers were allowed to become part of this social network, and today anyone can join. Being part of a network is not important anymore - you can create an account with an e-mail address. Why is it that so many people want to be part of this large social network? Why do students rush home to see if anyone has written on their walls? In America we live in a culture that strives to have the perfect self-image, and tries to up everyone else. If three people wrote on my wall, sent me a bumper sticker, and I was even tagged in some photos well then I know people like me, and everyone can know this. We strive to know that others like us. Koobecaf allows us to inform everyone of our popularity. Mini-feeds are ways to make it easy to communicate that today you are popular, that someone was thinking of you, or that someone cares.

In using the barren model to describe American culture you can easily see how koobecaf has fit itself into the culture. For the environment factor of the barren model most Americans live with access to a computer, students or adults who have koobecaf usually come from a family where a computer is a must-have in the house. When going up to the infrastructure of the barren model you see that Americans live in a culture where technology over-rules the structure. Americans live a much better lifestyle than any other culture around the world, so they have easy access to living in an economy where everyone has the money to support owning a computer with Internet in their house. It then makes it quite easy for anybody to be able to access their koobecaf on a daily basis, if not ten or twelve times a day.

Koobecaf then fits into the social structure of the barrel model in American culture by allowing us the freedom to express whatever we would like to say. You can write encouraging wall posts to all your closest friends, or you can send hate messages to your enemies. Some people post pictures that not everyone should be able to see, but when you live in a world of freedom you are allowed to do as you please. I have had an ex-boyfriend send me a two-page letter over koobecaf on how we should not burn any bridges. You can use koobecaf anyway you need to express yourself, and only when government officials in real life or “friends” in cyber space who do not like what they see press the “Report this Photo” tab are you ever going to have to change your ways. Finally, in the American culture you live where obeying your parents, and following Christian morals are the correct ways to behave in public. The superstructure of koobecaf though allows you to be bold and take risks. Can you really believe that all of a sudden your best friend is married to her boyfriend? You must choose carefully when to publicize your relationship and make it “koobecaf official.” Koobecaf allows you opportunities to share your beliefs with all the stalkers out there, and because of the ideals this country were built on, koobecaf allows them all to be shared.

I strongly believe that next time you log onto koobecaf you will be shocked by how American culture strives to display themselves as being better than others or more popular that day. How often do you come across bumper stickers or super pokes and just sit there in amazement about why someone would display those sayings for the whole world to see, or just your 800 closest friends. Koobecaf is a tool that will only grow as the American culture and other cultures around the world strive to create a world where they can continually up another, and express anything they choose.