A Friend: Do you have a Facebook? (Facebook here stands for a Facebook account)
Me: No.
Friend: REALLY?! you don’t?! (The same expression as if I told him I won the Nobel prize!)
Me: Yeah I hate Facebook.
Friend: YOU WHAT?!! (With eyes and mouth wide open, ready to kill me!)
I-Hate-Facebook! What? Is that so hard to digest? What is it with people and Facebook? I can never understand what the reason is behind their obsession with it. I mean it’s just another meaningless-useless-aimless website!
I won’t lie, I mean sometimes my brother tells me to come and to see people that we know on it, and I would look, but from those endless lookings I have managed to construct an idea of why some people—I’m tempted here to say most people but I don’t want to generalize—use Facebook:
1) So they can take as many pictures as they can for cool hangouts, celebrities, and some fancy cars and stuff. AKA: Look at me I’m so cool with my cool peeps, hanging out in cool/expensive/sophisticated/extravagant places. AKA #2: I have so much money as you can see.
2) So they can lie as much as they can. E.g. Someone sees a Porsche in the street and takes a picture standing next to it, or even manages to sit in it. He then puts the picture on his Facebook account with a comment: “My new Porsche!”
3) So they can join cool groups—mostly, they are not related to whatsoever—so we can be impressed. AKA: Look at me and the groups I’m in. Wow I’m so dope I can’t handle myself. I joined the Nai group, Prana, Myth, Eight… etc. All those fine clubs that I don’t even know where they are!
4) So they can lie—again—about their social status. AKA: It’s true that I was a dork in high school, but look at my pictures now; my girlfriend is so hot, I got a new look, and we’re in the coolest party. OR My boyfriend is so hot, look at us riding in his convertible BMW 650, awesome.
5) So they can back up each other within the same perimeter of their nonsense. E.g. Some one writes a comment to the Porsche guy in #2 saying “Congratulations man, I really liked the interior!” AKA: He’s not lying, so you have to believe us. P.S. We’re so cool.
All those points serve the same sole purpose: to meet someone, or to make it easier to impress people, consequently meeting them. But if you ARE so cool and already have cool friends, why do you want to meet new people again?!
Other than that, Facebook has so many negative effects that exceed the positives. Some people are addicted to it and it became a part of their lives and that shouldn’t happen. Moreover, it’s infested with wrong thoughts, wrong stands, hypocrisy, racism, lies… etc. I don’t know… I just hate Facebook.
