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ColleenConway, Edison: FaceBook - My new BestFriend?
As I looked around the school library the other day, roughly two-thirds of the computer screens were showing FaceBook. Now I am sure those students were working on school work as well, after all we have become a world of multi-taskers. My question is, how is this affecting our social culture? More and more of us are socializing, and getting our news and information, not just from the Internet, but from FaceBook. Per FaceBook’s statistics page, http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics there are 500 million people using FaceBook, and 50% of those active users log in, in any given day. The average person has 130 friends. Are those friends our new social group? Do we spend more time with them than those friends who are real skin and bone? Sure some of those people overlap; they are true people seen everyday or occasionally, and there are family members and people who live across the country and world. It is a wonderful way to keep in touch. Do we pick up the phone as much now though? Do we (you remember these, right?) write letters, send cards??
FaceBook has a certain safety zone for people… you can look and snoop and get information on people anonymously, you can communicate in the safety of your reviewed responses world. You can even obtain information on people you don’t know at all.
There was a news story last night, on a young girl who was killed - she was a friend of my daughters so, I easily found her page and from there, her boyfreind’s page, who was accused of the crime. The 11 O’Clock News used their FaceBook pictures on the breaking news. There is always a thin line on sharing and a need for privacy. Sometimes your best friend can turn on you.
The Internet has always been a plethora of visual, intellectual, and social information. FaceBook wraps it up nicely. I just hope my time spent in my virtual friendships does not diminish my time spent looking into someone’s eyes to commiserate with their issues or share in a hug of happiness, and I must be vigilant in the secrets and pictures I share with my BestFriend(s).
FaceBook keeps me in touch with many friends I would otherwise not get to know what is going on in their lives. I must remember though, it is not a subsitute for getting out into the world and sharing. For even though I can sit here with my laptop and my 160 friends, I am still alone.
6. September 2010 at 07:40
Yes, I to agree with you Facebook has become social problem for many. I used to have issues with it myself when I had an active Facebook account I found myself not getting housework done. I slacked on getting shopping and important business handled because I was spending hours commenting on Friends status and putting up comments of my own that I thought people would find interesting. I became a Facebook addict without even realizing it! But one day I went cold turkey and deleted my account and realized how much better my life was without it. Facebook is like digital Marijuana. If you take a few puffs of it more than likely you will be just dandy. But, if you become a total Face book stoner then it can really effect your life and you will become a slave to it. My advice to all out there would be to lay off of the Facebook Man!! It can eventually lead to the harder stuff like chatting on your PS3 at two in the morning!! That’s when know you got a real problem!
9. September 2010 at 17:30
Let’s just hope ‘they’ don’t find medicinal purposes for it! Then I would have the excuse I need. Ha!
9. September 2010 at 22:06
I completely agree with both of you on how Facebook has become a huge social problem even though it is suppose to help you socialize with others. Facebook is a great tool to keep in touch with old friends but people need to realize that always being on and seeing how everyone is living their lives prevents you from living yours. Its like reality shows, people sit in front of the TV to see what happened on the next episode of Jersey Shore instead of going out and living their own life. People just need to limit themselves and not spend every minute on Facebook in order to live their own lives, and have their own stories, and really socialize with people face to face, not through computers.
9. September 2010 at 22:24
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12. September 2010 at 22:46
I think we need to give Facebook a chance to advance forward into an interpersonal networking vessel in which, no one will ever be left at home again. The opportunity to gather and share with people that are on the same page as yourself, combining all efforts to a common goal. Although, if I do not leave this spot and get out there in the world… to at the least, put a smile on someones face, enlighten with my kindness, or poke on the their shoulder. I feel as though I am wasting valuable time… never really sharing or considerately interacting with others. After all, I’m never alone… we are all place holders for God…