A Bad Idea To Take Facebook Seriously

In numerous ways, Facebook and other social media has brought a lot of people together in many ways. It has allowed them to reconnect with friends and family. Social media has also allowed people to put together numerous good contacts that served them well in the world of business.

For every good thing that Facebook has brought us, there have been numerous bad things the social media platform has brought us. Granted it is not just Facebook that is the cause of many of these problems, but given that right now Facebook is perhaps the most prominent social media network, it is the face that can be put on many problems that is across the Internet.

Facebook is Serious Business Apparently.

When Facebook started up, I doubt many could rather imagine what it would grow to. It was a nice place to socialize online, to really hang out with friends, keep in touch despite being in separate states. After a while, Facebook started gaining steam and became mainstream. Some of largest corporations around the world realized the power of social media and thus they hopped right on Facebook. It was not just a geek thing to do any more, rather Facebook was a rather serious thing. If you were a company that was not on Facebook, you were missing out on a large amount of profits. If you were the average person on the street, you were simply not with it. Facebook was the most happening place.

The problem is when something becomes popular, it also attracts the worst of people. At another time the Internet was a far more innocent place. Granted, you’re always going to have people who are going to stir up trouble. At another time, the Internet was associated with a geek stereotype so to speak. Only the social outcasts were on it, it was not the hip thing to be on.

These days the Internet rules the world and if you’re not on the Internet, you are pretty much disconnected with what’s current in the world today. And with the popularity comes the pain of more scam artists, more disruptive people trying to cause havoc with computer viruses, and just a lot of trolling in general.

That brings us back to Facebook. It became a huge haven for anyone. It brought out all sorts of characters out. Lots of trolling, bullying, and also another platform for a fair share of scams has colored the experience of Facebook for many. This is one of the reasons why some decent people have left the social media empire. While some remain, the dregs of society have been left.

Also another point is that people take what happens on Facebook a bit too seriously. It is something that affects real life a little too much. There have been broken friendships, broken families, and broken marriages because of Facebook. All it takes is one comment or people stirring the pot to really set off a storm.

It is rather sad when real life is disrupted due to social networking insanity on Facebook and other such websites. Of course one must wonder if this is happen if said people are spending a bit too much time on Facebook. That point however is beside the point.

Facebook is for fun, it should not dictate your life.

I think that people really can spend as much time as they want at a place, until the point where it causes the lines between real life and their life on the Internet to be blurred. To the point where it drastically affects their lives in the real world, it is going to become a problem at that point. That time could be longer for some of us and much shorter for others. It does depend on the responsibilities you have.

In reality, Facebook should not be something that interferes too greatly with your responsibilities. Whether those responsibilities are your children, marriage, friends, family, work, or school, there is a point where it can go too far with interfering with all of those. To the point where it drastically affects said responsibilities.

Facebook can be great but if you take it a bit too seriously, it can cause some damage to your lives.