The Facebook Illusion
Who else was a contender? Zuck did the impossible. He made every Joe-Smo feel like a celebrity. How many friends can I get? How many "Likes", or the Holy Grail of Facebook: The all powerful Comment.
Like everyone, I have a Facebook account but after the first year I quickly grew disillusioned. My "Friends" list exploded into the hundreds, full of people I never hung around with. The posts I read were so mind numbingly dumb, one day I exploded and made a "Comment Dump" and quit Facebook.
Not unlike a Crack Addict it was really hard to give up my addiction. Althogh I didn't post comments I checked Facebook daily for months, wondering what was going on? What are people doing? The answer to that question was nothing, or they are doing what you're doing. So what are you doing? Anything exciting? Anything worth talking about ten times a day with one-hundred of your closest "Friends".
Look, Facebook was fun. But it's over!
Unless Zuck figures out what to do next he's going to end up like Tom.
Comment Dump is below if you're interested...
I can’t take it anymore. I’m going to signing off of Facebook on May 2 @ 5:00pm. If you have something to say you better say it. Otherwise call. But if you call I don’t want to hear ‘Where you ate’ ‘a comment you like’ ‘a song quote’ or anything else Facebookian which makes my brain feel like soup being defecated from Forest Gump’s anus. I can’t wait to be socially retarded again. To not have the urge to check Facebook 30 times a day. I want my life back. Why? Because I don’t really care about all the nothing you did today and nor will I care tomorrow. Farewell my faux friends. Farewell to your ‘Likes’. Farewell to Facebook. I realize that I really didn’t want to know.
(Not one of my greatest online moments, but it's from the heart.)
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