Facebook… Interesting?
January 9, 2010
I remember way-back in college, I think it was speech 101 at UAA. I wrote an speech about Information Technology and the Internet. My grabber was something like “we are far from an information rich society”. Fifteen years later and I would of written the exact opposite. Being a retired IT ‘professional’ of many years, I was happy to remove myself from that sector and re-enter hospitality. I still follow the technology world, I just don’t feel I have to be in front of it.
The last year or so a lot of people I know here on the island are all about facebook. Not a day goes by (or an hour for that matter) where there are updates to a status, new images, applications, challenges and the list goes on. It seems it’s almost an addiction for some.
My original intention for starting a facebook page was to look up old classmates, say hello, catch up, to see where people are and what they are doing. That was two months ago. Today, about an hour ago, I deactivated the account. The reason why follows.
I expected people who sent me friend requests would want to know the same things I wanted to know about them, like I said, – say hello, catch up on life, see where people are and that they are doing. I’m sad to report that not one person even asked. Maybe it was me, maybe it was them – maybe that is the was society is now. I really don’t know. Why send a friend request if your not going to be friends? I can’t answer that. If you have 330 friends in your list and don’t actually exchange real life, meaningful wholesome information then who really cares if your status says what your doing or where your going or what you ate. Id much rater have a few friends that I’m actually friends with than a hundred people more interested in the colors and patterns of my SIGG & Nalgene containers.
It really isn’t that important in the end – but I am disappointed that facebook seems to be more a a quick fix for for attention junkies and status mongers than a real way to catchup, be friends and connect with.. well whomever your befriend. There are some out there who are in deed real life friends and family and who use facebook as a daily keep-in-touch – I think that is great. But for someone I have not seen or head from in 20 years to send a friend request and then never say another word is, well pretty lame.
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