I’m beginning to think that Facebook is toxic.
It begins by enticing you with the latest gossip among your friends, the ability to stalk check out friends’ profiles (without being tracked down like Friendster), and then introduces you to time-consuming and brainless games like “pets society”, “spot the difference” and “mafia wars”.
With the growing popularity of “social media”, facebook has successfully wormed its way into the workplace.
At work, I’m creating groups, trying to garner traffic & understand the psychology behind a facebook user like myself. At home (or anywhere else), I’m prying at my friends’ private (but online) lives, satisfying both curiousity and gossip with a simple click.
Facebook is the perfect tool to keep in touch with people from pre-school playmates to business associates, and yet it undermines human interaction by putting actual, face-to-face meetings at the backseat.
With everyone so absorbed in our little blue profiles, it does leave me wondering what legacy Facebook actually gives to mankind…
A new & savvy tool for communications or lower standards of face-to-face interaction?
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Funny how you mention the part that facebook actually puts face-to-face interaction at the backseat. I’ve been thinking about this issue for sometime now, in fact, I realise that even before facebook was born, our face-to-face interactions have already been reduced substantially with mobile phones and text messages. Imagine there are people who actually breakup with their partners via text messages! I think in terms of face-to-face human interaction, it has already started to disintegrate since forever. I actually see facebook as the “tool that culminates” that.