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NY Times
The Facebook Resisters
One of the comments boiled down all of the reasons I left facebook years ago:
I have been there. A couple of years ago a friend told me I should join FB and I did. I was appalled by the level of the exchanges taking place between "friends", and soon deleted my account. The immediacy and easiness of use of this gimmick revealed a side of people I thought I knew that horrified me: their shallowness, boredom, conformism and, most of all, craving for self-promotion.
Never mind concerns about privacy (which should be enough to discourage any thinking individual from participating): Facebook is symptomatic of a society where the virtual is increasingly substituted for the real, and all aspects of life are turning into commodities, including people themselves who end up being completely addicted to their toys (smart phones, apps, video games etc.); where empty connectedness has replaced communication and meaning.
A very lonely world indeed.
The Facebook Resisters
One of the comments boiled down all of the reasons I left facebook years ago:
I have been there. A couple of years ago a friend told me I should join FB and I did. I was appalled by the level of the exchanges taking place between "friends", and soon deleted my account. The immediacy and easiness of use of this gimmick revealed a side of people I thought I knew that horrified me: their shallowness, boredom, conformism and, most of all, craving for self-promotion.
Never mind concerns about privacy (which should be enough to discourage any thinking individual from participating): Facebook is symptomatic of a society where the virtual is increasingly substituted for the real, and all aspects of life are turning into commodities, including people themselves who end up being completely addicted to their toys (smart phones, apps, video games etc.); where empty connectedness has replaced communication and meaning.
A very lonely world indeed.