Being an avid Facebook user, I will admit that it has become my personal ego boost throughout the day. I get excited when I see that little red alert pop up and I will admit it makes me feel a little better about myself inside. I use Facebook everyday, and my friends and I even joke about how we consider Facebook to be an internet pallet cleanser between different websites, because we always find ourselves back on Facebook just to see if we do have any of those notifications. Facebook does come with many benefits for networking, as many users use Facebook to find old friends and reconnect.
The idea of Facebook suicide personally scares me due to the fact that it is probably one of the cheapest addictions I have developed. Without Facebook, I would probably never get any event invites, or even updates about anyone. It would be literal suicide to me because I would feel so disconnected with the world. I do agree that Facebook has become a lot of users personal ego boost and we have fallen into the habit of believing that everyone wants to know everything we do. With every status update I do, I'm aware that I just made my life a little less private by sharing my status with the copious amount of friends I have. Facebook also does have its downsides in the fact that many users add friends they don't even know, just for the number of friends they want. In order to avoid falling completely into the Facebook of having a million friends and in attempts to maintain that I am not a complete Facebook junkie, I like to delete friends off my list every few months, but this is probably just to make myself feel less egotistical and self absorbed, and create the illusion to myself that I am still keeping it real on Facebook, when the rest of the world is falling into the trap of giving into the lifestyle that everyone wants to portray on Facebook.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment