I don’t know if I’ve said this before, but I’m from Norway, and here Facebook is the site for most of the kids my age. I don’t have an account there, and I never will have. I’ve got accounts on many sites, but not there. Why? Because it feels like surveillance and I’m not interested in people learning about my non-existent social life. You see, people are so obsessed with Facebook that they keep updating their own profiles non-stop and they read the profiles of others with hunger. I don’t know how many times rumors start at facebook, “I read it on her facebook!” someone says, or “did you see that dunken picture on his facebook?” etc. It’s claustrophobic, well I feel that it is, and I don’t even have a facebook!
People are spying at each other, and they like it. Do you want someone to know something about you immediately? Put it up on facebook, then all the people who know you will know the next time they log on, and a whole lot of other people will know too. Can’t they see the consequences of what they put up on that site? I mean they use their real names for the most part, and then anyone can come and check in on them, their future bosses or lovers or schools, their parents and grandparents. Anyone. How flattering is it when a picture of you drunk and completely out of your mind is seen by your teacher?
I just don’t get it, why do they want to broadcast these things? I mean, I get why you want to share stuff with your friends, but it is online and it won’t go away, ever. Think about it, if you should become a public peson in the future, some journalist might find it and your drunken sixteen year old self might be plastered all over the papers the next day. You’ve published your scandal yourself.
Still what I like the least is that how many friends you have on facebook matters, how much stuff there is on your profile and so on. What about the real stuff? What about the friends you sit with at lunch, isn’t something off when the only thing you talk to them about is what you read on facebook? You don’t even know whether it is true or not. It really annoys me. I have a myspace, and I’ve had it for four years now, I like it, but I’m not spending time talking and thinking about it when I’m not online. My blogs I do spend a lot of time thinking about, but I use my blog as an emotional outlet, and not just this tool for letting everyone know what I’m doing. I’m not even using my real name. plus nobody I go to school with reads it.
When will facebook die?
