facebook

I’m not gonna lie.... I am a Facebook addict. But, Facebook is weird. Weird to the extent that it’s not real. Like… it’s not your real life. You can portray your life however you want to on Facebook, and no one will ever really know the difference. You spend and waste hours on Facebook, just in a place that seems like real life, but it isn’t. People pose for pictures just so they can immediately upload them on their profile. They do activities and write about it on someone’s wall, knowing the rest of the website will be able to read it... and maybe that’s what they’re hoping for and why they write it in the first place. It’s the best source for gossip out there. You get to see who’s talking to who, who’s friends with who, who’s dating who, etc.. A lot of which is fake. How many people are you friends with on Facebook that you’ve never even hung out with or maybe even met? How many things do you comment on or ‘like’ on someone’s profile, but in real life you would never even talk to that person? In the midst of all this Facebooking, I think we are losing a sense of reality. That person smiling in that picture is who the ‘Facebook World’ sees, but who is she really? Just by looking at the picture, no one really knows of the trials, challenges, or heart breaks she experiences. They just see the mask of a happy girl. Now, I’m not saying everyone who has Facebook is miserable, but Facebook is a good excuse to make your life seem wonderful. Everyone’s lives can seem perfect and a blast on Facebook. The ones that want it to seem that way anyway. And the ones who complain on it are the ones who want everyone to know what they’re going through. I’ve had times where I’m done liking someone, and I will take lots of fun pictures, comment funny things on people’s walls, or make happy statuses… Just so that person will see them and maybe be a little jealous. And if he sees it and thinks I am happy then it’s like I’m winning. But in reality, I’m really not. Happy or winning. Because you can hide your feelings from a fake world, but in the end you won’t be able to hide them from yourselves. It’s easy to think that doesn’t matter and what matters is the angle of your life that people are exposed to right? I think it’s sad that we can get so caught up in our own as well as other people’s lives that it’s taking away from real personal interaction. How much can you learn about a person writing on their wall or chatting with them? It’s not like this is reason enough for anyone to just stop having a Facebook either. I’ve tried that, and after a while you just feel so out of the loop. I’m just saying that as good as Facebook is for bringing old friends together, if we’re not careful it is going to completely take over and we won’t be able to keep track of our real lives verses our cyberspace lives.