Hello everyone, my name is Nick and I am a facebook addict. Everyday I wake up and it is the first thing I think of when I roll out from under the sheets of my twin size. I can’t believe that something so simple can consume so much of my thought. How sad am I to be so mentally intertwined with something not even human? Half the time I am on facebook I’m not actually physically involved with it, beyond clicking the refresh button every 5 minutes religiously to make sure I haven’t missed anything. I just waste my days staring and clicking and viewing pictures. Sooner than later I’m staring at pictures of a newborn and I don’t even know the names of the parents. Sure this past segment was slightly exaggerated, but the first step is admitting you have a problem correct?
A few people might have found that past segment rather disturbing, but the rest of the people must find that it does hold some truth, although a tad extreme. While I’m sure that the inventors of facebook might not have imagined the success of this site known around the world, what they might have thought was that it would just make for much simpler conversation when a phone isn’t around (or when your too scared to hear your facebook girlfriends voice). What started out as a simple social networking site quickly ballooned into a giant photo sharing, application hoarding, event promoting, group gathering, creep station. Now all of these things sound great on paper (except for maybe the last one), but after further examination seem a tiny bit less that stellar. For example the whole photo sharing thing is great (an easy way to remember exactly what happened last night), but more recently employers have been lurking onto facebook to check out photos to see exactly (in vivid detail) what you were doing last night. Which in some cases may affect your current employment statuses. Call me old fashioned, but I don’t see the genius in a chat application, what with the population of cell phones meaning that almost everyone has access to a phone at all times. What ever happened to calling up your friends when you wanted to get together? Or having a one on one chat with your girlfriend, before calling it quits, therefore changing your facebook relationship status? Before we know it all anyone will do is sit in his or her tiny computer rooms (only big enough for you and your computer, because what else would anyone need), and stalk the web twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Sounds a bit harsh? I know I’m being way too hard on a website that I’ve been logged on to since the start of this blog post. Hello everyone my name is Nick, and I am a hypocritical facebook addict.
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