I do indeed have a facebook profile but it is no longer something I check and interact on regularly. I originally created my facebook profile as a ay to keep in touch with people I met at a conference in Washington, D.C. and then that expanded to friends at school and so on.
Since a year ago, when I didn’t have the ability to check my profile regularly, I got to the point when I didn’t really need it anymore, not that I had really needed it in the past. Over time, I realized how self-serving and egotistical the whole social networking craze is and how it has labeled our generation and put it in a negative light.
If I were to commit facebook suicide, it wouldn’t really affect me that much because it is something that isn’t that big a deal in my life. I’m not a very social person to begin with and the friends I was able to find on facebook are people I knew from my real life, usually not people that I met online, and then in my real life, as is the case with many social networkers. The thing that I would lose is the ability to communicate with many of the people that are friends on facebook that live in opposite parts of the country.
I am in complete agreement with the article in terms of how social networking has made us the Me Generation times ten. The whole concept of social networking is centered around the selfish belief that everybody cares about what you, one person on a planet with 6.5 billion people, do in your daily life, no matter how mundane the happenings of your life are. This is what has brought about the blog culture and has brought the dream of celebrity to a new level with the advent of youtube, flickr, myspace, etc. Which, in a way, makes this blog post ironic.
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