06-06-2013, 02:15 AM
I remember when Myspace was all the rage. I was younger, and I enjoyed the anonymity of it all, and the personalization possibilities. It was fun, and meaningless.
Then Facebook took over, and I jumped on board like everyone else. It was cool keeping up with friends and family, at first. The popularity of the site kept a gravitational pull on me too. I never liked the stupid Zynga games everyone would invite me to play. It was annoying, and I didn't like feeling obligated to play something I didn't want to just in effort of not offending the person sending the request.
The same was true to everything else on Facebook. Liking pics or status updates, tagging people in photos or videos, having to write happy birthday on people's wall instead of calling them. I wouldn't want to hurt their "feelings", so I obliged like a little facebook zombie I was. It all became superficial to me. Trivial, and out of place in my mind.
The obligation, expectations, and lack of human to human contact started to weigh me down. Shit hit the fan for me, when I saw an old friend on the bus, and I told him we should hang hang sometime, to his response of, "Facebook me!", complimenting the smog look on his face. What happened to just giving me your god-damn number? Is that too old fashioned for your liking, you prick? Hence, I didn't "facebook" his bitch ass.
I had enough. With the information overload, and requirements of nurturing and responding to it all. What happened to calling people, and seeing them in person, for once? When did that become abnormal?
Also, keeping up with the endless format page function changes, over, and over, and over again... too much. Then, finding out, it sold your personal information to companies for advertisement revenue, and god knows who else, or what other entities that be.... my pictures, status updates, AND personal messages (WTF?!) in the hands of corporations and businesses that I'll never have anything to do with, given away like an open art gallery for them to gawk at, and share with 3rd and 4th parties, and so on. fuck that.
And on top of that the invisible facebook plugins that record and keep EVERYTHING you do online, on your personal computer.... is fed into their servers for advertisement-matchings of your "interests" in hopes you'll click on them for revenue.
I don't use Facebook anymore. I deleted it.... well DEACTIVATED IT, since it's impossible to permanently erase anything and everything you've ever done on facebook from their servers. It's theirs to keep... forever. Bullshit.
Then Facebook took over, and I jumped on board like everyone else. It was cool keeping up with friends and family, at first. The popularity of the site kept a gravitational pull on me too. I never liked the stupid Zynga games everyone would invite me to play. It was annoying, and I didn't like feeling obligated to play something I didn't want to just in effort of not offending the person sending the request.
The same was true to everything else on Facebook. Liking pics or status updates, tagging people in photos or videos, having to write happy birthday on people's wall instead of calling them. I wouldn't want to hurt their "feelings", so I obliged like a little facebook zombie I was. It all became superficial to me. Trivial, and out of place in my mind.
The obligation, expectations, and lack of human to human contact started to weigh me down. Shit hit the fan for me, when I saw an old friend on the bus, and I told him we should hang hang sometime, to his response of, "Facebook me!", complimenting the smog look on his face. What happened to just giving me your god-damn number? Is that too old fashioned for your liking, you prick? Hence, I didn't "facebook" his bitch ass.
I had enough. With the information overload, and requirements of nurturing and responding to it all. What happened to calling people, and seeing them in person, for once? When did that become abnormal?
Also, keeping up with the endless format page function changes, over, and over, and over again... too much. Then, finding out, it sold your personal information to companies for advertisement revenue, and god knows who else, or what other entities that be.... my pictures, status updates, AND personal messages (WTF?!) in the hands of corporations and businesses that I'll never have anything to do with, given away like an open art gallery for them to gawk at, and share with 3rd and 4th parties, and so on. fuck that.
And on top of that the invisible facebook plugins that record and keep EVERYTHING you do online, on your personal computer.... is fed into their servers for advertisement-matchings of your "interests" in hopes you'll click on them for revenue.
I don't use Facebook anymore. I deleted it.... well DEACTIVATED IT, since it's impossible to permanently erase anything and everything you've ever done on facebook from their servers. It's theirs to keep... forever. Bullshit.