I think that Apple products combined with Facebook will be
the end of demise for our current generation.
I seriously wake up every morning and as I drink my coffee I check Facebook. I take my phone everywhere. I seriously believe that I check Facebook at
least 30-50 times a day. I will spend hours on it at night, seeking some new
sort of information that generates my interest.
Is our own lives so boring that we have to read about other friends
lives to take up our time. In my 34
years, I would say that the technological age took a hard shift in about 1997-1999
right after I graduated high school and while at my first base. This is when cell phones became so
abundant. Still the introduction of the
smart phone is what really killed it.
This didn’t happen to me until about 2009 because I lived overseas, and
my cell was for calling people or texting.
But what did the introduction of the cell phone do? It took away the
need to communicate with people directly.
Then texting, e-mailing, etc, quickly eliminated any need of personal
contact at all…And now…well now FACEBOOK is a cancer that is at a stage 4 in a
lot of our lives.
*DISCLAIMER*
I understand it’s
your page, say what you want, post, or share whatever, but at the same time, I
am the reader, what if I don’t want to read or see what you have to say. Now I know you instantly want to defend
yourself, but here me out on this one.
First off, you choose your friends. The people who see your every move is by your
choice and yours alone. A friend is
someone you trust, will not judge you, or use your mistakes to their advantage. Nor, will they do anything that would hurt
you. Therefore, your reason to state why
someone is not being a friend, as if they are going to read your status boggles
me. Why are they on your page in the
first place? People don’t become shady overnight, so bottom line you either
need to learn what a friend is or you need to filter your friends list, because
I, your friend, don’t want to hear empty threats of deletion or telling someone
off, when all I have done is be your friend. I simply don’t need that type of
drama or negativity in my life.
Second. Why do you
threaten deletion? If you don’t like someone, why make an announcement to each
and every one that you are going to delete people.
I have seen many reasons, as many of you reading this now too have and in all they all in....CONSIDER YOURSELF DELETED BY THE TIME YOU FINISH
READING THIS POST. Really?! Why the
empty threats. Have you engaged
yourself in social media so much that you can’t even confront your so called
friend one on one. Think about 5th
grade. If your best friend made you mad, you passed a note in class to her or
him or called it out on the playground. You didn’t pass a note each and every
person in hopes they (your so called best friend) might see it, and as well get
a poster made and tape it on the door, YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND ANYMORE. My point here is our children are already
engrossed in this type of behavior. We are the teachers, the groomers, we are building the next generation. The generation where every
child gets a trophy for trying. And we
are simply passing down a toxic form of communication down as adults. We wonder why children and young adults are
weaker today than when we were teenagers.
The simple truth is lack of confrontation and I believe we use the word
friend loosely. If someone is your true
friend, you wouldn’t have to defend yourself on Facebook, because honestly, I
just don’t want to see it. Oh did I already say that? Yea I did.
Third, why do we feel we need to use Facebook as a mirror to
our soul. Now I know, you see an image,
and you feel passion behind it, so it’s your page, go ahead and share it. Its your damn page in the first place. I do it; it’s nice to see something you
relate to, because ultimately it is your page.
However, what I am discussing is when you change your status or share a
picture because you want someone to see it.
If you wanted them to see it that bad, and you know in your heart that
this picture is for one person, why not text it to them, or message it to
them. Why post it for all of your
friends to see. And lastly, If you aren’t in texting
status anymore, why the hell are they on your Friends list?
My last plan of thought here is FACEBOOK
has become a valid personality test. I can see which of my friends are single,
married, going thru a divorce etc. I
know if you are in a relationship and trying to reach out of it. I can tell what is going on in someone's lives merely because of statuses, self pictures, or images. You have made
it easy for me to see if you are needy, a gold digger, happy alone, or
emotionally unattached and not ready to grow up. And I think it is really sad. Just because I know I have had my moments
too. So I’m going to close with
this. If all you are experiencing is
negative events or dealings with negative people, check your Facebook page on
your last year of statuses… I can almost guarantee you will only see negative
posts. You are attracting what you put
off. Find peace in yourself, eliminate
those who do not bring you positivity, and pay kindness forward. Think before you post, and always do the
right thing because you want to, not because of what you want someone to see
it.
Keep in mind that truthful words are not always beautiful, beautiful words are not always truthful. So be right in your own setting and what you say will be delivered just as you intended. Fear and Anger are fed with fire, don't fuel that fire and it will die, and those who bring you such negativity will no longer have a purpose in your life.
