Facebook is the only place in internet who depresses me because certain people doesn't comment. I really don't know why I care so much but it just makes me sad. u____u
It's deceptive. When I've been on FB myself I've had that reaction, thinking "they don't care!" but it's much more likely they never read the comment in the first place. Such is the nature of posting updates on FB and having a large number of "friends".
I agree with you about most of your Facebook observations. Facebook glamorizes everything because it is selective; people only post photos of fun events and milestones (and detag the "ugly" shots) so you are prompted to believe their life is nothing but that. I've also observed that the people who interact with me on Facebook are just the people who are always on Facebook, rather than people who are of particular importance to me. Knowing that affects what I post, so I'm sure my profile doesn't totally reflect me, either
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I agree with your points about facebook. I perferred it a lot better when it was simple, cut and dry and userfriendly. All the recent changes annoy me and really turn me off to using it.
I studied communications in college and I remember having a discussion about this in my Freedom of Speech class. I do agree that social media allows us all to hide behind a mask and say things about people we don't mean to say. I've been guilty of that actually and I regretted it later. I tend to perfer face to face interaction rather than social media. Facebook is really good for making plans and that's about it.
I spent a week last year with no tv, reading or web browsing. It was initially hard to do, but I got so much done! The one concess I made was listening to the radio.
What upsets me is that social media provides a slew of new items to add to one's to-do list. If you only have an hour or two of free time a day, and a dozen sites to check (with all the fascinating links and YouTube videos hanging off them), your free time quickly gets used up and there's no time left to read a book, take a bath, do crafts, or chat with your best friend.
I deactivated my FB account last week. I felt a twinge of addiction pulling me back, but so far have not reactivated (maybe in a couple of weeks time). I'm doing a post-grad in Fine Arts and I made a decision NOT to read FB in the mornings or while I was at uni. Got more done. Since I decativated it, and this is the mid-semester recess, I've caught up a lot on my other forums, and done stuff around the house.
I don't notice such things. If others are embellishing their lives to impress me they're wasting their time. And you don't talk to me on Facebook. So trying to stop would be pointless. =P
Overall I make it a point to not talk to anyone online in any form that I wouldn't talk to face to face. In the world of Facebook I've collected random people because it's forced upon me if I want to play the games there. But recently they've made changes and I no longer have to be friends with them. Which pleases me. Because I prefer to leave the strangers in the strangers category and not add them as friends. So I guess I'm keeping it as close to real life as I possibly can.
I still wouldn't trade in my digital world. I'd be stuck meeting only CowVille type people then... and that'd be bad.
Overall I make it a point to not talk to anyone online in any form that I wouldn't talk to face to face.
When I've been using FB, I don't befriend anyone unless I know them in real life. And when I get a friend request I've been selecting "Not now". The ones that really want to be friends will send me a message. The rest whom I might have met once somewhere (or not at all) can go hang.
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I studied communications in college and I remember having a discussion about this in my Freedom of Speech class. I do agree that social media allows us all to hide behind a mask and say things about people we don't mean to say. I've been guilty of that actually and I regretted it later. I tend to perfer face to face interaction rather than social media. Facebook is really good for making plans and that's about it.
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I deactivated my FB account last week. I felt a twinge of addiction pulling me back, but so far have not reactivated (maybe in a couple of weeks time). I'm doing a post-grad in Fine Arts and I made a decision NOT to read FB in the mornings or while I was at uni. Got more done. Since I decativated it, and this is the mid-semester recess, I've caught up a lot on my other forums, and done stuff around the house.
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Overall I make it a point to not talk to anyone online in any form that I wouldn't talk to face to face. In the world of Facebook I've collected random people because it's forced upon me if I want to play the games there. But recently they've made changes and I no longer have to be friends with them. Which pleases me. Because I prefer to leave the strangers in the strangers category and not add them as friends. So I guess I'm keeping it as close to real life as I possibly can.
I still wouldn't trade in my digital world. I'd be stuck meeting only CowVille type people then... and that'd be bad.
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When I've been using FB, I don't befriend anyone unless I know them in real life. And when I get a friend request I've been selecting "Not now". The ones that really want to be friends will send me a message. The rest whom I might have met once somewhere (or not at all) can go hang.
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