So now that I am in college I have realized that time is of the essence. By saying this I mean that there is not enough time in the day to do all the things that you need to do. Take my situation for example, I have four classes, and soccer practice, and all the while, I have to be doing homework for other classes not in my schedule tomorrow. What I've noticed however, is no matter how much I try, no matter if I mute the radio, turn off the TV, and sit in the common room all alone, I cant seemed to focus. The bottom of my computer screen is always popping up and displaying new messages and notices that I have received on Facebook, and I cant seem to leave the red blinking notice box alone. Facebook has turned into an addiction, what with it being not just a computer activity, you can now check status, see pictures, and take all the "what kind of animal would you be" tests straight from your phone!
Even while I am writing this blog, my friend Devon visiting me from California is on Facebook...and boy do i envy him. Facebook to me is a way to keep in contact with friends you would otherwise not see all to often. Being from California, i have a lot of family and friends i feel the need to talk to on a regular basis. When used wisely Facebook can be a valuable asset in this world, where what really matters is who you know. But society has now turned what was once a good thing, into a menace. Stop and smell the roses? Most people don't take the time to look up from they're Iphone screens to even finish homework now-and-days.
The face book epidemic is inevitable, and eventually it will corrupt the mind of the youth, causing a decline in the working class. i suggest that there a proposed regulation of social networking to regulate the amount of things we expose our children to, or at least ask Miley Cyrus to delete her Facebook causing the sending the Facebook population into a downward spiral ending in the website shutting down.... again.
I think facebook makes it a million times easier to keep in contact with people who maybe weren't your closest friends, but you still like to keep up with. It's hard enough keeping in touch with your close friends who you actually want to bother calling or sending long emails to and facebook means you can send a quick message or leave a comment. The problem is that it becomes really easy to judge what's going on in poeple's lives just by what you see on facebook, when in reality their is probably a lot more to it. Furthermore, I agree that although it has it's it's useful purposes, in other respects facebook has gotten out of hand and people are "addicted" to it. It's such an easy mindless distraction that lots of people have a problem with.
ReplyDeleteThere is great communication potential with Facebook, but as you mentioned, it can be terribly distracting - for both the sender and the receiver.
ReplyDeleteI think there is this social pressure to share what is going on in your lives with everyone on Facebook. It creates expectations as to what information you should share with you friends. But unlike traditional forms of communication, Facebook enables mass communication where those choices of what to share with friends also become choices of what to share with the world. And a lot of people haven't thought of what exactly that means yet.