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I am in an urge to share the points of my problems with facebook:
*Encouraging attention whores - For me it feels facebook encourages attention whores, especially women, to post every little thing about them - what they just ate, where they go (Check-in if im not mistaken is the name), millions of photos on their albums, posing in pictures trying to look hot. that is what i think of at the moment, but you guys can say more. I don't think it is a human trait we should encourage. Everyone wants to be at the center of attention, but when it comes to encourage narcsissm?
*Encouraging the human urge to pick up information on other people's lives you are hardly in touch with - All the gossip queens and kings out there, facebook is the ultimate tool to pick up dirt, or obsessively lurk on their facebook page sucking all information possible. I don't think this is a character which should be encouraged. I think we should control ourselves, our desires, and not to be so obsessive with other people's lives. "So he went to a party, so ******* what, why do I care, he just works with me" - this is how I think. This is also relates to attention whores, they supply information, and this lurking facebook pages guys and girls give them the attention they desire.
*"You have 548 friends" - really? 548 friends? I didn't know one can hang out with so many people and have meaningful enough conversation and know them good enough to call them "friends". It just pisses me off how facebook undervalues the word "Friends".
*Hurts the deepness of the friendships - Tell me, how do you feel when your friend just writes on facebook "I just brushed my mouth", I know this online communication is free so you wouldn't call your friends telling them that, but not because of the cost, because it is useless and even silly. Do they think they are funny, are they bored? I don't want to see a 1 liner of what daily routine about what my friend just did, I want to speak to him about something meaningful, like how was his day, did he end the relationship with the girl who drove him mad? did he patch up his feud with his boss?
NOT that you just brushed your teeth!
I realize this behaviours are well inducted into us as humans, but why do we let facebook encourage shallow relationships?
The only good think I can think of is having the casual chat and update with a long lost friend from lets say, elementary school... but that is pretty much it.
When people ask me why they didn't find me on facebook and im telling them I just don't have any they look at me like im from outer space, but I feel perfectly fine with my decision. I see the world around me changing and become more alienated.
Share your opinions, im deeply interested.
*Encouraging attention whores - For me it feels facebook encourages attention whores, especially women, to post every little thing about them - what they just ate, where they go (Check-in if im not mistaken is the name), millions of photos on their albums, posing in pictures trying to look hot. that is what i think of at the moment, but you guys can say more. I don't think it is a human trait we should encourage. Everyone wants to be at the center of attention, but when it comes to encourage narcsissm?
*Encouraging the human urge to pick up information on other people's lives you are hardly in touch with - All the gossip queens and kings out there, facebook is the ultimate tool to pick up dirt, or obsessively lurk on their facebook page sucking all information possible. I don't think this is a character which should be encouraged. I think we should control ourselves, our desires, and not to be so obsessive with other people's lives. "So he went to a party, so ******* what, why do I care, he just works with me" - this is how I think. This is also relates to attention whores, they supply information, and this lurking facebook pages guys and girls give them the attention they desire.
*"You have 548 friends" - really? 548 friends? I didn't know one can hang out with so many people and have meaningful enough conversation and know them good enough to call them "friends". It just pisses me off how facebook undervalues the word "Friends".
*Hurts the deepness of the friendships - Tell me, how do you feel when your friend just writes on facebook "I just brushed my mouth", I know this online communication is free so you wouldn't call your friends telling them that, but not because of the cost, because it is useless and even silly. Do they think they are funny, are they bored? I don't want to see a 1 liner of what daily routine about what my friend just did, I want to speak to him about something meaningful, like how was his day, did he end the relationship with the girl who drove him mad? did he patch up his feud with his boss?
NOT that you just brushed your teeth!
I realize this behaviours are well inducted into us as humans, but why do we let facebook encourage shallow relationships?
The only good think I can think of is having the casual chat and update with a long lost friend from lets say, elementary school... but that is pretty much it.
When people ask me why they didn't find me on facebook and im telling them I just don't have any they look at me like im from outer space, but I feel perfectly fine with my decision. I see the world around me changing and become more alienated.
Share your opinions, im deeply interested.
