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I deleted my facebook 6 months ago, now I think it is pathetic, am I wrong? - Krave - 02-19-2014 12:42 PM
I had a facebook for about a year before deleting it 6 months ago for good. I had 506 friends, some I barely knew that had added me from my old school, which I thought was weird, but I didn't want to be a dick to them. I didn't particularly enjoy scoping people's annoying self centered statuses or seeing profile pictures where everyone just tries to show off and one up everyone else. It's like an online popularity battle that I found absolutely disturbing to say the least. I don't realize why people check into places through their phones to show others where they are, like they care, or why people feel the incessant need to post usually shitty memes to make themselves seem cool. My close friends have my phone number and email so I don't have a use for facebook except for stalking people I don't really know and who I couldn't honestly give a dam about anymore. Have I just matured if I find facebook to be pathetic; I get sick hearing about it constantly and people think I'm weird when they ask to find me and I tell them I don't have one, am I the odd one or is society?
Not to mention it has become creepy how much privacy you lose through it.
- soupfine - 02-19-2014 12:43 PM
The world does not resolve around Facebook. Facebook is a fad. Not only is it a fad, it's a marketing, advertising juggernaut. More power to the people that make their own decisions and don't let peer pressure or media hype dictate what they do. Quality of life is not measured by how many "friends" you have on Facebook. I think you have matured...are at a point where you decide what you want to do and be a part of, and are not letting your habits be dictated to you what everyone else is supposedly doing.
And now for a completely revolutionary concept...meeting and talking to people in person...live, doing things together.