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.
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