Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Interesting quote.
Zizek was basically talking along the same lines as Jean Baudrillard and his theories of Hyperreality, where the image has become the reality. Facebook to me epitomises the triumph of the image over the real because documenting your life on Facebook becomes your life. Soon people won't talk on Facebook about things that happened in the flesh, they'll talk in the flesh about things that happened on Facebook.