I read that social media like Facebook and Twitter are defined as, “web and mobile-based technologies, which are used to turn interpersonal communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals.” In layman’s terms, it’s a way for people to communicate with each other, express their feelings and opinions, and hook up. It’s also a place for forty-five year old guys to pretend they’re fourteen, and hit on teenage girls, a forum to vent about your spouse, partner, or mother-in-law, and a way to distribute revealing, or even nude pictures of yourself to millions of strangers.
Did you ever wonder why they call it “Facebook?” I don’t know about you, but there’s some faces on there that I really don’t want to see. I read that as of May 2012, Facebook had over 900 million people with accounts. I also just heard that at least 80 million of those may not be real people! What do they mean, they’re not real people? What are they; robots? Does this mean I may be madly and hopelessly in love with a blow up doll named Molly, from Kenosha, Wisconsin? I guess that explains why she’s always smiling, doesn’t say much, and her two kids look like inflatable pool toys. The one problem I have with Facebook or Twitter is, it’s just too easy to make friends or to dump them later on. To gain a friend, all you have to do is send a friend request to some total stranger or someone who is a friend of someone that’s already your friend. I don’t know about you, but that’s kind of like taking your first cousin to the prom. You’ll get a dance or too, and maybe even a peck on the cheek at the end of the evening, but that’s it. Not very satisfying, huh?
It’s even easier to un-friend someone. In order to drop a person from your friend list, possibly destroy their self-esteem, make them question their very existence, and end up ripping the very beating heart from their chest; all you need to do is push a button. Sounds kind of cruel and impersonal, doesn’t it? What ever happened to the days, when you had to march over to your neighbor’s house, bang on the door, wait til it was opened, look them in the eye and say, “Listen, Burt. You haven’t returned the hedge trimmer you borrowed three years ago, your dog poops in my yard, you play loud music til three in the morning, and those are my wife’s panties in your hand. I’m sorry, and I know it’s going to be painful, but we can’t be friends any more.” Do any of you get mean comments from people on your Facebook page? Just this past week I got, ”You suck,” “That’s about as funny as your love-making abilities,” “Excuse me while I go outside and hurl,” and “You really suck.” And those were just the comments from my wife! I had to delete the ones my mother-in-law left.
Enjoyed reading, I got sick of Facebook and Twitter folk so i moved over to wordpress and i have to say the people on here or much nicer
Thank you. I too found that wordpress has nicer people. Everything is more open here. On twitter, people can be more anonymous, and say a lot of nasty things.
I too, rarely check in on Facebook, even though they send me emails asking me to, and tellling me I have notifications. Go away. But I have several friends who seem to spend hours on there. it would be interesting to see what types of personalities use FB and why. For us “less than social folks” it’s not our cup of tea.
Thanks for stopping by Barb. I’m a loner, and not a social person. I keep getting notifications that someone I know wants to friend me. It’s usuaally women for some reason. I’m going to start sending them a picture of myself. I figure that will scare them away.
You are too funny. I love FB for keeping up with friends from afar and my family. We share photos and our lives. I am not a friend maker though. Usually I have to know you pretty well before I friend someone.
I loved your post. 
Made me laugh and I LOVE laughing.
Thank you Shonnie. I’m glad you liked it. I have an account, but don’t use it very much.
I go back and forth on how much I use mine.
I caved in and joined to market my book. I’m not impressed with it. It’s like one spider’s web tangled in another.
And I know why it’s called Facebook. It was originally called The Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg and his cronies at Harvard invented the thing. They hacked into some database of pictures of the female coeds then put them up for the guys to rank or rate in term of attractiveness. Nice, huh? Somehow, out of that smarmy concept, a social networking megaindustry was born…
Wasn’t there a movie about the Facebook inventors? Didn’t they do some rotten things to eachother?
You are having trouble in Facebooking up to reality?
My reason for being on it at all is the games – which I play sparingly. I ignore most friend requests, even from family unless they ARE friends.
I like blogging, and I occassionally use twitter. Like I told harry; I’m a loner, and don’t have many friends. Plus, it would kill me if I did have hundreds of friends, and they all simultaneously hit the un-friend button.
I never use my facebook account i think its a get waste of my time.
Harry, I haven’t used my Facebook account in awhile. I’m kind of a loner, and it takes a lot of work and social interaction.
It does and i think its sad that people put so much stuff on it and spend so much time on it.
I agree, Harry