This article appears in Dec 25-31, 2008.
Will Facebook just die already?
Why are SO many people taking facebook as the be all and end all of social relationships these days? Is it REALLY that big of a deal if someone de-friends you or doesn’t write back on your wall? For fuck sake it’s the internet, NOT real life. If someone’
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I don’t mind facebook. Then again, I use it primarily for organizing real world socializing. Who the heck cares about de-friending or wall writing? Holy hell!
Most people don’t think of facebook as the…well whatever you said.I think its awesome that some news agencies allow their ‘journalists’ to use facebook as a source, though.I bet people who shit on facebook are also the same people who brag about how they don’t own a tv.whatev
I think FB is fun, but I definitely know people who take it too seriously. And most of those people could improve upon their “in real life” social skills….the internet is great, but sometimes one-on-one in person interactional skills suffer b/c of it. Ever notice how people can say all this shit talk on the internet, but when you meet them in real life they’re completely different? It makes me chuckle sometimes
seriously man. just think about it. its a virtual friendship party. just think about like virtual eating. is it really the same thing? which is better?
yeah… FB is great for socializing, but it shouldn’t be a life-encompassing deal. I use it for two things; getting my friends together (I hate text messages and my cell is business use only) and keeping in touch with friends that are either in another country or another province (it’s cheaper than long distance). Good tool, but I still can’t use it at work for some reason…
I picked up the face crack pipe for a couple of days about 2 years ago. All these strange creatures kept poking at me & wanting me to ‘join/include’ me into their friends crap.That was enough for me I will never touch that stuff again, I promise.