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The problem with your world view is that it doesn't take into account any major negative influences. What if you gained 20 pounds? Or lost your boyfriend to yo
by tokenizer 13y ago
The problem with your world view is that it doesn't take into account any major negative influences.
What if you gained 20 pounds? Or lost your boyfriend to your close friend? What has normally be associated with the family is now associated with the village, and that adds a lot of stress to people's lives.
Another problem is the us versus them that this group has enforces on people like me. I think I'm a pretty cool person, but if we met, I wouldn't have a facebook account to share with you. Would that affect your opinion of me? Maybe not, but I've had people comment negatively to it, and have even read articles proclaiming it affecting people economically due to potential social expectations now set by employers.
To me, it's a destructive force and a tool. A real-time chatting/messaging service that connects to an address list. And a new social experiment leading people down a path of "true" social alienation and narcissism.
I don't doubt that some people can use the tool responsibly, but it also leaves much to be desired for.
- keiferski 13y agoI wouldn't think less if you for not having a Facebook, but i'd probably become less of a good friend to you simply because of logistics. I (as anyone who had traveled, I'm sure) have a lot of friends on Facebook whom I met on a trip. Maybe we only had a beer and hung out for 3 hours. But since we added each other on Facebook, we're able to keep in touch. I talk to foreign friends via Facebook all the time. So instead of my buddy in Brazil that I met in NYC, you'd just be some random cool guy I knew once.
- holri 13y agoWell if you name someone a friend you have talked to 3 hours and you are sharing FB links with, than you have a totally different understanding of the meaning of the word "friend" than me.