Facebook Rambling
January 3rd, 2012I check in on Facebook a couple of times a day. I am not there long. I check the updated statuses and pictures of people (especially family), periodically add an update and that’s about it. I have come across three articles on Facebook in just two days. Here are a few of the thoughts that I read:
- Bill Gates gave up Facebook because he had “too many friends” (Oh really? I wonder why?)
- “Facebook was designed to help create social bonding, but in reality it detracts from authentic community.” Interesting conclusion…I agree with this in some cases…not all, but some. One person said, “How about picking up the phone to ask a friend how they are doing instead of clicking on Facebook, reading their status and then assuming that is the true and whole picture?” Wow!
- It steals a lot of time. One author put it this way – “Facebook can be a huge time suck”.
- Facebook can have a negative impact upon us individually. It can bring out the ugliness of jealousy as we read about someone else having a great day at work, having children who have attained high accomplishments, and reading about someone else’s trip. It can make an individual feel unwanted as the person sees several people communicating about a specific event and the person reading wonders why they were not invited. Our posts can bring “comments” from people that make us wonder “did they read what I wrote…they just don’t get it”. We say we would like to see an “unlike” option, but would we be bold enough to use it? (Yes, I know…”My little girl is sick” – click unlike…but what about “We just got a new car” when your car is held together with duct tape…would you click “unlike”?) And the judgmentalism it can bring out…we can easily be judgmental secretly and silently…just ignoring or hiding something or someone, when inside we might be thinking, “Is that all they have time to do, playing those stupid Facebook games like Farmville?” or when they invite us to “events or causes” and we think, “Not in this lifetime, friend!”
So…what am I going to do? I am not giving up Facebook…sometimes I think I should, but not right now. I am just thinking out-loud about it and wonder if others have some of these same questions and thoughts.
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