Yep another Facebook hate-filled blog. It really is the pure proof of our degrading society. I have yet to find the percentile that I exist in, being an anti-FBer but I have to believe that I'm not alone in the realization that this is killing us, as a people. It's said that we are getting dumber with each generation; with that fact in mind, lets be clear that Facebook is the vehicle to that demise currently.
Did you know that collectively, Facebook's users spend, wait for it... 700 billion minutes per month on the site, according to company stats? Assuming the site has 500 million active users, that works out to 23 hours and 20 minutes per person a month ,on average, sites CNN tech blog, Netiquette. By that math, the average user is logging a little more than 45 minutes on Facebook a day. That is a lot of time dedicated to voyeurism.
Yep, I said it! Facebook is merely the voyeuristic need to keep up with the Jones's. Truthfully, this need is nothing modern; Zuckerman has just offered us a less conspicuous way to go about this dysfunctional mandate to be involved in other people's lives to such an unhealthy degree. Imagine taking this amount of time to look inward...is that really such a phenomenal idea? Self-introspection. Instead we all rush to our computers,smart phones, ipads, laptops everytime someone posts any inane scribbling. How and why would it impact my life in anyway to know that friend x(PS, are normally not truly a friend) now owns a ipad2. Oh yes, let me be specific...an Ipad2, not one, so in your face, you can hear if our ability to infer hasn't been completely eradicated yet.
I can't use the term voyeur without mentioning FB's, ever so private and careful (note: Sarcasm, please) picture posting policy that are made available to all Facebook users. All one needs to do is post a picture to a few people and before you know it, it has been tagged amongst your peers and then some. This is the latest form of torture made available to teens today. Trust me it is being fully abused. My niece was very recently a victim. She had suggestive pictures posted on facebook, without her permission by an ex boyfriend. Yes, she found out quickly after and had them blocked, etc but that did NOT get rid of them, merely no one could see them on her page anymore. As is true for most of the world wide web at large, is doubly the case with FB...once the info/pics are out there, it can never be destroyed. Might I add that if, God forbid, there were someone actually monitoring this website, maybe then, an individual's right could be honored. Just a thought.
I'm done...for now. Basically, and yet again...Facebook is the devil! Laugh if you must to ease your own discomfort at perpetuating this plague upon mankind...laugh indeed. Mwhahhaha
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