Being that I can no longer get on Facebook due to my personal restraint, I find other ways to fill my time, such as searching for random Youtube videos to entertain myself. While clicking away, I decided to explore what videos have been posted in light of Facebook itself, and found this wonderful person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UouP8cRYZ8
If you have a moment, feel free to be inspired by others besides myself, pointing out the fallacies of a social network and our 'images'. After watching this video it truly inspires me to take more and more off of my page to prevent the judging that others unknowingly pass. I've also decided that a cleaning up of my friends list will dutifully follow. I only wish that awareness of the lies we post online or our constant over indulgence, could be passed on to everyone on Facebook. I am beginning to feel sorry for everyone on this social website, meaning the entire world. My book was going to be written in hopes of enlightening others, but I fear that it wont make the impact I wish it could. Re-evaluation of self. Honesty as is life. Discretion. Real Experiences. These are a few of the things that I hope others take into consideration as they log-in to their pathetic virtual life.
I have a theory that one day the internet will crash, and send the whole world into utter chaos. Yes, a little over dramatic but fun to place consideration and open our eyes to our dependancy. What would we do without this form of communication? Will they one day create a diagnosis for Facebook symptoms, and administer drugs? What if the person you truly are, was presented for all to see--not the past you or the future you, but you? What if no one could sign into their Facebook accounts for one day? That would be the true test of who we are, who we really care about, and what means the most to us. But those days may not come tomorrow or a week from now; and many may never understand what life was like before Facebook, a fact which saddens me most. The virus has been downloaded. Th addiction in place. The poison surpassing through our veins. There is no turning back now and quickly the affects work through our lives and create avatars of people and who they want to be. Not who they are.
Perhaps one day I will Delete my Facebook account. The day I realize that it has nothing to offer me but emotional distress, free judgment from 'friends', impersonal updates to strangers about our private lives, and pure over analyzations of every posted detail. All in all, a distortion of reality that can never be seen clearly. Lies upon lies.
We're doomed.
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