After searching the net and doing my research, I felt it was in my best interest to deactivate my facebook account. I do not like how facebook takes people away from human interaction. Plus, even though I had a few hundred friends on the site, how many of them did I actually see? Maybe 3. And so why do I need a social network site with people I'm never going to see? Why do people write their whole lives online for everyone to see?
Facebook has become an addicting place to store your pictures, thoughts, friends, and whatever. Nowadays some people think it's weird to not facebook. I think it's a strange world we live in. I look at facebook as a distraction, or an annoyance. It's not exactly a convenience. I mean I was connected to a few hundred old acquaintances. But was I really connected to them other than digitally? Was I connected to them on a personal level? Not at all. And by the way, with facebook I start to realize hoe boring and lame people are.
Remember the popular kids back in high school that seemed like everything went right for them? Now you see them and they post pics of their foods, beg for likes, friend everyone they used to know including people they don't know, and it just looks like they are dying for attention. Once I realized people had to check in everywhere they went, check out, and post their foods, people were going way too far. It's almost like you have to live 2 lives now. You live your facebook life, or your social network life, and then you live your real life, but only to take photos and facilitate your facebook life.
But it doesn't end there. The apps on the phone have officially made people addicted 24-7. The way I see it, this is not a good step for humanity. I have friends who don't even realize that they are addicted. I go out with them for dinner sometimes and before the food comes they would be looking at their phones and laughing at different posts from facebook, from people they don't even keep in contact with anymore. ''Hmmm, let's see what so and so wrote today..''
And I even tell them they are ignoring me. They think I'm crazy and tell me to chill out and let them relax for a minute. It's always, ''Let me just look at it minute. Oh hey look at all these pics I can view from this chick. Check her out. Oh she said she's working at so and so.''
And so I decided that I didn't want this kind of life. I mean let's be honest. 99 percent, or at least 90 percent of the people that we normally have on social network sites are not even part of our lives anymore. You'll never see them. So why have information about a person you knew years ago when he/she has no interest in ever seeing you?
Facebook gives you the false sense, the illusion of friendship. This is very sci fi for me and it's very powerful. I'm actually experience with drawal symptoms. But I know that I have to let it pass. I wasn't even hardly talking to anyone on facebook. I was just used to logging in and checking the feed, maybe pressing thumps up. But if we can't even get off facebook, how our we going to even function in the future? This is why I had to cut it off. You might think FB is not a big deal, but people don't get it. Just look around. Go out and what do you see people doing? Walking while looking at their phone. Putting their phone over their food while they eat. Ignoring the people their with inadvertently. This is sad, but it's what people think social is. It's the start of something that looks very ominous. People were not meant to live like this. It's very strange.
So I quit. And I need to figure out how to beat the symptoms. I'm so used to logging in. But I know that if I do, I'll never get the urge again to go out and meet people in real life. I need to be cut off from it. I know it's for the best. But sometimes I hope I don't miss out. For instance if it wasn't for facebook, I wouldn't have found the group for my highschool reunion. So sometimes I wonder if there are consequences to quitting.
Facebook has become an addicting place to store your pictures, thoughts, friends, and whatever. Nowadays some people think it's weird to not facebook. I think it's a strange world we live in. I look at facebook as a distraction, or an annoyance. It's not exactly a convenience. I mean I was connected to a few hundred old acquaintances. But was I really connected to them other than digitally? Was I connected to them on a personal level? Not at all. And by the way, with facebook I start to realize hoe boring and lame people are.
Remember the popular kids back in high school that seemed like everything went right for them? Now you see them and they post pics of their foods, beg for likes, friend everyone they used to know including people they don't know, and it just looks like they are dying for attention. Once I realized people had to check in everywhere they went, check out, and post their foods, people were going way too far. It's almost like you have to live 2 lives now. You live your facebook life, or your social network life, and then you live your real life, but only to take photos and facilitate your facebook life.
But it doesn't end there. The apps on the phone have officially made people addicted 24-7. The way I see it, this is not a good step for humanity. I have friends who don't even realize that they are addicted. I go out with them for dinner sometimes and before the food comes they would be looking at their phones and laughing at different posts from facebook, from people they don't even keep in contact with anymore. ''Hmmm, let's see what so and so wrote today..''
And I even tell them they are ignoring me. They think I'm crazy and tell me to chill out and let them relax for a minute. It's always, ''Let me just look at it minute. Oh hey look at all these pics I can view from this chick. Check her out. Oh she said she's working at so and so.''
And so I decided that I didn't want this kind of life. I mean let's be honest. 99 percent, or at least 90 percent of the people that we normally have on social network sites are not even part of our lives anymore. You'll never see them. So why have information about a person you knew years ago when he/she has no interest in ever seeing you?
Facebook gives you the false sense, the illusion of friendship. This is very sci fi for me and it's very powerful. I'm actually experience with drawal symptoms. But I know that I have to let it pass. I wasn't even hardly talking to anyone on facebook. I was just used to logging in and checking the feed, maybe pressing thumps up. But if we can't even get off facebook, how our we going to even function in the future? This is why I had to cut it off. You might think FB is not a big deal, but people don't get it. Just look around. Go out and what do you see people doing? Walking while looking at their phone. Putting their phone over their food while they eat. Ignoring the people their with inadvertently. This is sad, but it's what people think social is. It's the start of something that looks very ominous. People were not meant to live like this. It's very strange.
So I quit. And I need to figure out how to beat the symptoms. I'm so used to logging in. But I know that if I do, I'll never get the urge again to go out and meet people in real life. I need to be cut off from it. I know it's for the best. But sometimes I hope I don't miss out. For instance if it wasn't for facebook, I wouldn't have found the group for my highschool reunion. So sometimes I wonder if there are consequences to quitting.