I hate facebook. Facebook should be included among the mankind's worst inventions.
Why?
Facebook supposedly links people to others who they usually don't interact in off-line life. It is said to loosen up intensity and makes it easier for a person to talk to another. The notion of 'friends' in Facebook is so casual that even non-friends can pretend to be friends. Facebook is an anomaly of a blog which helps one to engage in personal drama more drastically and secretively. It encourages people to form a clique by creating a concept of 'networks' so that others can't join you if you're not a part of a certain community. (I realize, however, that this idea might be refuted by the fact that the system shows all of the other networks you're in, acknowledging the fact that a person does not belong to only one society.)
I've recently been forced to re-activate my Facebook account by our psych professor who opened a group in Facebook for updating her daily lecture materials.
ABOVE ALL RESOURCES.
ABOVE ALL WEBSITES.
She had to choose FACEBOOK.
This is a clear assumption that every student owns a Facebook account.
It is as though, if you don't have one, you're not even a normal human being.
In Facebook, users go off to one another's so-called 'Wall' and write anything that pops into their mind at that exact moment. From the well-known "HEY-WHAT'S UP?" to "YOU TOTALLY ROCK DUDE!", the messages written on the wall vary. This sometimes leads to much of personal drama. In that case, the perp can simply erase whatever that he or she might have written and take no responsiblity what so ever. And, the more time they spend on Facebook mindlessly, a person may receive more messages than others. This is an unique form of showing off one's seeming, meaningless and ephemeral popularity. Ever since Facebook was created, people whose ages range from pre-teen to those who born before colour televisions were invented, people spend an unbelievable amount of time updating their status, uploading pictures from one of million bus-stops and restaurants in Vancouver and so on and so forth.
This is madness.
Sure, we all know that the internet is rarely used in the way it was intended. The only time people use it from something genuinely useful and intelligent is when they are working their asses off for essay deadlines or projects that are overdue.
But Facebook just stuns me with its stupidity and pointless existence.
