Facebook suicide?
September 28, 2007While perusing my daily dose of news, I stumbled across an article headlined “Facebook Mass Suicide”. Naturally, the title in and of itself fascinated me, so I read on.
Come to find out that many people using facebook have decided that they can no longer balance their daily lives with their addiction of facebook, and have organized a “mass suicide” group where people (simultaneously or individually) agree to cancel their facebook account, never to return.
Now, I spend as much time on facebook as the next guy; but I could not conceive of spending so much time on this site that my relationships with people outside of facebook had been adversely affected. Internet addiction is not necessarily a new phenomenon; but to think that a site meant to improve a persons social life was actually detreacting from it was intensely surprising to me.
Sadly, I feel that this is an ever-growing trend. At a conference that I was at this morning, I learned that most people under the age of 25 communicate primarily through facebook, with e-mail and everything else falling to the wayside in favor of wall posts, messages, gifts, pokes, and all the other social ”interactions” that facebook allows.
Here’s the article, if anyone is interested:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298166,00.html
I’ll keep up with this new trend of people trying to break their addiction. Until then, thanks for reading.
Hi Joe! That’s really interesting. I have never used facebook, and I am now convinced that I should stay far, far away
Hahaha, fair enough indeed. It’s addictive… occasionally I fall prey to its perplexing allure.
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