Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Facebook Suicide
Having a Facebook profile is extremely self absorbing. I didn't want to read this article because it articulated the way I feel about Facebook, and I knew It would inspire me to jump off the Facebook cliff and delete my profile. I wish I had never joined and got sucked into this mindless selfish world. I constantly check to see if people have posted comments on my posts. I often wonder "How do I find balance between my online life and my real life?" I wish I had no computer, no Facebook, and no on-line life. I want to live life free of viral connections. Instead I want to live in a world of real connections with other human beings. "How much exposure is healthy?" I don't think any exposure is healthy. I think Facebook distracts people from facing themselves. It detours them from their own boredom and depression. I hate social networking sites because It completely ruins true interactions between people and it promotes alienation. The more people interact on the internet the more they lose the ability to connect with other people. Facebook profiles are constructed out of self-interests and selfness. I still feel like I physically can not delete my profile. If I do that some of my friends will have to actually call me! I need the strength to finally get out of this stupid, ridiculous online world.
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After reading your post, I am curious as how you would respond to sites such as eHarmony; social networking sites with the intention of promoting real life interactions (and supposedly excelling at it). How is that promoting alienation?
ReplyDeleteI think that this post is more directly trying to say that sites such as Facebook make us lazy and not have a "true" or "sincere" bonding relationship. It is not whether these sites negates human interactions, but alters it in a negative manner.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what inspired you to join facebook to begin with if you feel this way. What I really thought was interesting though was the fact that you used the word "alienation" when describing the phenomenon that occurs when people using facebook or other social networking sites create a cyber community/life. I would have to agree that Facebook has the potential for alienation. The most alienating thing is that when you do not deal with people face to face (and instead screen to screen) people are not always able to understand the context someone is coming from. For example I could say "Thanks for the great gift!" and it could either be taken seriously or sarcastically...people don't always know the difference and that is a BIG problem. [and thats just the begining]
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