The way I'm always making false promises to myself, I took another silent oath to get off my butt and start writing. To start putting something up on blogger, reading other people's blogs and establishing that as a hobby. I've been promising myself that I'd do other stuff too, like jogging, or delving into a new novel, or practice painting. There's so much that I aspire of accomplishing and all that stuff I wanna get back to but guess what? That so called "five minutes" of facebook always gets in the way!
And that's not a lame excuse. I swear, facebook's evil, It's wasteful, destructive and all the other disciplinishic words I can think of...but whatever it is, whether any dreamy-eyed boy could do it or not- facebook has sure got me smitten.
I'm actually ashamed to say it's probably the apple of my eye. And maybe the apple of the eyes of so many other poor, helpless people. Facebook has got us all perpetually glued and there's nothing more honest that I can say or do than give the genii a complete, full-fledged hats off. They say the pen is sharper than the sword- but believe me, all the computer programming gobbledygook behind facebook is sharper than the sword, more dominating than our poor naive friend "the pen" will ever believe he is, stickier than the most expensive super-glue ever produced and more destructive than any weapon ever created.
Oh wait, that's it! The weapons of mass destruction- a product of pure genius- was not buried down some god forsaken kitchen garden in the Arabian desert! It was ingrained deceivingly in the realms of cyberspace. How could the Bush administration have been SO stupid? Not only do they go screw up half the Iraqi LEGACY but they come back home with sheepish smiles going "Well guess it ain't there. Better luck next time hey, pops? All we gotta do is throw in some CHANGE and I guess those iRacky folks'll be able to get themselves a good ol' Bud Lite or something. Sure will straighten stuff up." Believe me, the percentage of chance that these guys would get anything right is probably even lesser than the number of braincells in their skulls. Three words for you; QUIT-WASTING-TIME.
Okay, my nutty exaggerations apart, lets take a look at the stuff facebook's doing to us. I'm too tired to go into the serious, security and moral issues, so for now- let's just stick to how much shit is being thrown at the fan by facebook.
I guess the biggest of the problems is how we lose track of our responsibilities. Like homework and studying ,for example- I swear to god, at this instant, it's 11:15 and I still have two commerce essays due for tommorow. Holy crap- This is as pathetic as it gets !@! I can actually talk about where facebook is leading me and not do anything about it. I guess the temptation surpasses the guilt every time. For those of you still at school or college, you'd totally get what I mean- I'm sure everyone of you have put away studying for a freakishly important exam just because you got too carried away with facebook. They actually have these procrastination groups and stuff like "I'm supposed to be doing my homework but I ended up on facebook". How aptly in our faces...
Danger number two is how vastly facebook affects our social lives. I'm beginning to find that more and more each day, so many people's lives are being built on, made and broken by facebook. I know I said I wouldn't be touching up on serious stuff but I wanna mention that I've actually seen relationships end because of some airhead getting all hanky panky with some of his so called "friends" on facebook. Like changing his relationship to "married" to someone other than his "steady" girlfriend. What's worse is that these "other women" in question aren't always women. Of course, the vice-versa applies. The message is, whatever it you're planning to do on facebook...EVERYBODY CAN SEE IT. What's even more strange, is that exactly when you think everybody will be too busy to notice what you're doing anyway (the way so many things that were actually meant to have an audience goes away unnoticed), everybody sees it. Like everybody, meaning, everyone, meaning, all d'peeps n da hood, not only manages to see it, but also talk about it even though whatever it is, it's completely dumb and useless.
Apart from that, we fight over facebook friends, friend requests, embarassing pictures, why nobody likes us because we never got tagged in a poem or a cartoon, POKES (!?!) and all sorts of insane bunk. We have the loners who cry about their empty walls, popular people complaining about their flooding friend requests, people who get upset about their friends doing badly in "how well do you know XYZ" quizzes, and the annoying people who get ignored on fb chat (I wonder why...). The worst of all of this are the rumors that get spread on facebook, normally through facebook status updates and the really, really tabboo pictures. On a serious note here, whoever you are- if you're on facebook, please use it with dignity and respect, 'cause like I said a simple, fun tool like fb can make or break you.
So signing off; though this was just a useless rant, just me trying to kill some time by complaining about something completely stupid, and not all of this should be taken that seriously- I just wanna end this by saying that I guess it's time we reflected on what we do and just learn to be careful dealing with social networks like facebook.
Now, I gotta run, I bet my notifications are pilin' up!
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