Its been a rough day...Like really....not cause i was jabbing teeth or working with a hacksaw(could really use one on my boyfriend today)....but simple cause i was ALONE
So,in times like these i turn to my very faithful yet falsified networking sites...i'm there everywhere...from facebook...to myspace..to twitter....to et cetera ...et cetera...When I first joined Facebook in the summer of 2008, my intentions were strictly voyeuristic.... I read other people's posts, spent hours perusing photos and even "checked in on" (read: stalked) a few exes and their current significant others... It's hard to resist.... I was not, however, inclined to report on my minute-to-minute goings-on: I drank beer... I changed my bra... I took a breath...cleant dog poop...I bought see-through lingerie... It seemed like too much information to disseminate to my growing number of "friends.".....But, before long, like every other user , I got sucked in. Facebook became a part of my daily—even hourly—routine.....I called it a healthy addiction until lately i realised that it does act as a digital anti-depressant of sorts providing us with both self-affirmation and mass-voyeurism..but blurs images so deep that your so far from reality....far from a hug and a kiss...from "friends"...The reason we gravitate towards the social networking even when we are looking to be left alone is because it's no fun to be left alone, alone....
We don’t tell the truth in social networks, but this doesn’t mean we lie.... There is a whole spectrum of ‘untruths’ from selectively updating your status, through over-emphasising elements you choose (and under-emphasising others) to plain untruths (saying you enjoy reading Magical Realism, when really your favourite book is a trashy biography)..... We do this because we want to present ourselves in a way that we want others to see us. ...Online there is a real opportunity to build the personal brand, and so we are all becoming marketers – marketing ourselves....So does this actually matter? Should we all try to be truthful and accurate in social networks.... The truth is that it probably doesn’t.... Whilst social networks are being used as networks of individuals, we are all doing the same thing – we know we don’t upload all photos (probably not those from that party, for example) and so will expect others to act in the same way....Not every user is as enthusiastic and unguarded as I tend to be..... A Facebook page is a fair mirror of its creator........ My shy friends shun photographs and avoid frivolous applications, while my extroverted friends festoon their pages with gewgaws, pass along viral videos and movie quizzes, and inundate me with gifts and pokes (like taps on the shoulder) and superpokes—whimsical announcements that a friend has (virtually) serenaded you, kissed you, or trout-slapped you, and so on. Admittedly, this is inane. ...It is also, in a word, fun.....
Social networking is all of the above and more.....more since it can sink you more into depression cause you cant be anymore ignorant about the world(read:successful friends)...Its a vicious cycle you get engulfed into...and becomes part of you routine like having breakfast....Social Networking is Ironical in it’s name because it doesn’t bring people closer but creates big gaps in relationships with people who really matter the most in our life Parents and Family... Spending lumps of time sitting in front of computer screen is not going to get you friends but living with them sharing happiness and spreading the joy does that.... Facebook, Twitter etc. are good but not better......I have no right to tell you waht to do and what not to do, i can just say… as a friend that Social Networking Websites are great, Facebook is ultimate and Twitter is like your virtual world but excess of everything is bad! don’t use SNS like mad men!
I remember a time when i was playing more than 17 social games including Farmville and update my status even at 4 in the morning.......
I'm just saying get a tad bit real...whilst letting your alter ego get their bit of gratification...
nice one super babe!!!!!!!!!!
thank u :)
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@maaz: :).....
Terrific buddy! Spot on! Well said... How true!