Is Facebook the root of all evil? Part 1
Is Facebook or farcebook as I like to call it, really the root of all evil or perhaps like money, it is the love of facebook that is the root of evil.
As a free marketing or advertising tool, you really can't beat it. Especially those free buy, sell, swap pages which must be causing the likes of TradeMe, eBay, etc. to take a big hit.
Good job Facebook!
There is the part of facebook that has been well-documented by counselors, shrinks, Doctors and media personalities, so I won't dwell on it, and that is the effect "likes" and "hates" on social media, have not just teenagers but everyone.
Pictures of my dogs always get loves and likes...I don't know if I have ever had any angry faces but I have had some of what I thought were my brilliant posts, ignored!? That could be interpreted as "a hate."
Maybe??
It's also very interesting who you end up viewing when you see old friends or long lost family members "like" your friends' posts. Sometimes I just look at people's posts and photos because they are interesting. I have not, however, tried to friend these strangers or friends of friends.
It always feels like spying or at worst, stalking, to be looking at stranger's photos and posts.
Would they actually let you into their home to stare at their children or eat the dinner that was in the photo they posted 3 mins ago that everyone is liking and yum-yumming and emoji-ing over with eating faces and hearts. I think not!
I read a comment by someone the other day, not on facebook, that they had "deleted their account" as they couldn't stand the keyboard warriors, AND the bad grammar littered throughout Facebook.
I have to agree on the bad grammar. Too much FB slang is now in the dictionary.
What would Shakespeare do? Misters' Webster and Collins must be seething in their graves, all that work and it's been bastardised in little over a decade.
In the Bible, there is a scripture in the gospels where Jesus tells his disciples that, "you cannot serve God and mammon (generally thought to be money or power) but you must love one and hate the other". Keeping this in context remembering that money is not evil but the love of it is,
I suggest a 21st-century update on that verse. "You cannot serve Life or Facebook but must love one and hate the other." How radical!
Such strong words, love, and hate...evil.
Do any of us love facebook more than life?
So much of our lives, (and sometimes I do this) are splayed across facebook... there's a lot of over-sharing and public griping and angsting. The fact is we do seem to need validation and comfort, recognition/approval from the facebook community.
That we are doing "good", doing"the right thing". That we are perfect, pretty, strong, darling and on and on it goes.
We know all the pitfalls of facebook and yet still we check-in and out all day long.
As much as we know too much chocolate, wine, sun, fast driving, smoking, computer, etc - that too much of anything is detrimental to our well being, we still indulge.
Then we try to stop facebook and we get withdrawals and a bit agitated, wanting to get back on the book to see "what's happening" and how many likes our latest post has.
Subtly we get sucked in until like a smooth menthol cigarette, we are hooked!
I think that is enough facebook spouting for one day.
I am going to write more pieces on this topic, mostly not in favour of farcebook so let me know your thoughts - give me more grist for my mill🎯🏁
As a free marketing or advertising tool, you really can't beat it. Especially those free buy, sell, swap pages which must be causing the likes of TradeMe, eBay, etc. to take a big hit.
Good job Facebook!
There is the part of facebook that has been well-documented by counselors, shrinks, Doctors and media personalities, so I won't dwell on it, and that is the effect "likes" and "hates" on social media, have not just teenagers but everyone.
Pictures of my dogs always get loves and likes...I don't know if I have ever had any angry faces but I have had some of what I thought were my brilliant posts, ignored!? That could be interpreted as "a hate."
Maybe??
It's also very interesting who you end up viewing when you see old friends or long lost family members "like" your friends' posts. Sometimes I just look at people's posts and photos because they are interesting. I have not, however, tried to friend these strangers or friends of friends.
It always feels like spying or at worst, stalking, to be looking at stranger's photos and posts.
Would they actually let you into their home to stare at their children or eat the dinner that was in the photo they posted 3 mins ago that everyone is liking and yum-yumming and emoji-ing over with eating faces and hearts. I think not!
I read a comment by someone the other day, not on facebook, that they had "deleted their account" as they couldn't stand the keyboard warriors, AND the bad grammar littered throughout Facebook.
I have to agree on the bad grammar. Too much FB slang is now in the dictionary.
What would Shakespeare do? Misters' Webster and Collins must be seething in their graves, all that work and it's been bastardised in little over a decade.
In the Bible, there is a scripture in the gospels where Jesus tells his disciples that, "you cannot serve God and mammon (generally thought to be money or power) but you must love one and hate the other". Keeping this in context remembering that money is not evil but the love of it is,
I suggest a 21st-century update on that verse. "You cannot serve Life or Facebook but must love one and hate the other." How radical!
Such strong words, love, and hate...evil.
Do any of us love facebook more than life?
So much of our lives, (and sometimes I do this) are splayed across facebook... there's a lot of over-sharing and public griping and angsting. The fact is we do seem to need validation and comfort, recognition/approval from the facebook community.
That we are doing "good", doing"the right thing". That we are perfect, pretty, strong, darling and on and on it goes.
We know all the pitfalls of facebook and yet still we check-in and out all day long.
As much as we know too much chocolate, wine, sun, fast driving, smoking, computer, etc - that too much of anything is detrimental to our well being, we still indulge.
Then we try to stop facebook and we get withdrawals and a bit agitated, wanting to get back on the book to see "what's happening" and how many likes our latest post has.
Subtly we get sucked in until like a smooth menthol cigarette, we are hooked!
I think that is enough facebook spouting for one day.
I am going to write more pieces on this topic, mostly not in favour of farcebook so let me know your thoughts - give me more grist for my mill🎯🏁
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