I Hate Facebook

16Aug11

I’m beginning to hate Facebook. I used to think Facebook was a gift from God to the cyber world (after Google, whom I’m very dedicated to). Well, not anymore. I don’t like seeing people I dislike having such a great time. I don’t like seeing emo people posting emo status updates on their walls every 10 minutes. I don’t like seeing the boy I used to like get married to a pretty girl. I don’t like seeing 20 different people sharing the same video online. Facebook has been getting on my nerves. I’m getting too much information off Facebook and that’s not good. But I’m so goddamned addicted to it.

Before Facebook existed, people who walked away from your life walked away for good, and that’s not always a bad thing. Before Facebook existed, everyone you met is a mystery, and it’s nice because the great thing about meeting someone new is that.. you get to find out more about them FROM THEM. Not their Facebook profiles. These days it’s so easy to find someone on Facebook that you tend to judge them even before you met them. Well, at least that’s what I do. It’s shallow but I can’t help it!!

What’s worse is that I can’t bring myself to say that it’s cool to NOT have a Facebook profile… because,well, I’ve been brought up to think that it’s not. My mother has a Facebook profile. I have a friend whose dog has a Facebook profile. So you see, it’s not cool if you don’t have a Facebook profile, because even domestic pets have them.

And then now there’s Google+. And Twitter. And Foursquare. And Tumblr. And Heello. And more.

The world seems to be connected by a huge web of social media networks and it may seem pretty awesome at the beginning, but as people get too reliant on these sites to maintain their friendships and relationships, it ends up pulling people apart because there is no real connection anymore. Our friends live in our computers and if you think about it, that becomes kind of freaky doesn’t it? We spend more time with our computers than any of our real friends, and in the end, we become more lonely than ever.