FACEBOOK

After using Facebook for two years I feel like it's no longer useful to me. True, it is an effective tool for reconnecting with old friends & connecting with new ones, and sharing our vacation photos with people who don't normally get to see them, and snooping on people without them or anyone else knowing it, among other things. But what happens after we reconnected with our old friends? Do we hang out with them? Or do we only stay in contact with them by email and/or mutual postings? For me it's neither. But wait, didn't we lose contact with those people because we chose to do so in the first place? Of course this may not be the case with everyone on our friends list but most likely the percentage is high. So we post pictures from our recent holidays. Do our Facebook friends really care to know where we had spent our last winter holiday, or who we hung out and had fun with (at a party they were probably not invited to),  or which foreign countries we have visited that they may not have the money to go to? I'm not so sure about that. When a posting about someone being so happy appears on my news feed, I often wonder, is being happy such an occasional thing for this person that he/she feels the need to put it up on their wall? Or when someone buys a new LV purse and puts a picture of it on the their wall, I wonder how on earth they could afford it. Or worse, is it even the real deal? And then there are those who post rants and abrasive things about one of their friends. I wonder, if they are so mad at this person why have they not unfriended them yet? And lastly, when people check-in to places, are they even at the exact place they had just checked-in to or are they only in the vicinity and picked the one they think would make them look "cool" to their Facebook friends? More than likely, it's the latter. I'm not even going to go into the profile pictures! All I can say about that is, Photoshop has surpassed drugs as the most widely abused thing around. Ha~! To sum it up, Facebook has become a sort of arena for showing off whatever it is that we assume would make us look cool around our friends. Truly it is no different than a high school hallway, one filled with a bunch of grown-ups!