I am very sure the header of my blog is going to attract many eye balls as it will throw many of my readers –majority of them users of facebook, off-guard and they might even feel that the author, thats me, is going through a fit of insaneness and will leave no room to refute my claim about their ‘perfect waste-time machine’ with strongest argumentations.
By the little experience that I have garnered about life and behavioural patterns of the sapiens, I assert that my opposition is seriously and irrationally driven by emotions. Since the E-word has little or virtually no significance for me, I find it uneasy to defend this face-web-book.
Facebook has actually made us learn- How to fake? I come across people endlessly clicking ‘only-their’ solo pictures with all the fake smiles, grins and exhibiting great versatility in putting up a wide range of false expressions on their faces just to get a perfect piktcha-as is it called in FB lingo and if it is good enough and ranks high in the parameters of fakeness, it goes onto become ones display pic.
Facebook is undoubtedly an image-builder and forging oneself in order to project as a positive and ‘feel-good’ figure is what we all do, however shy away to admit the fact.
Recently one of my friends on the ultra-successful social networker FB, uploaded images of the vacation with her family. The scenic beauty coupled with superbly lit cruise decks and scintillating backdrops in those pictures completely knocked me over and did inspire me to admire the nature.
But what followed on FB was both weird and strange. Days later, similar sort of vacation albums were floating all over FB, displaying where the people-starring in those albums had been this summer, when the rest were fighting Delhi’s super hot temperatures.
Nothing personal against anyone here, it’s my take on the scheme of things that FB encourages.
The extent of fakeness does not end here, the concept of ‘chat-friends’ is on the rise too. Some of your friends in the list might never talk to you in-person but the moment they discover the green bulb beside that your name, they may not hesitate to pop up a chat message to you. I find it very funny. Well there is no harm in doing that but this kind of attitude shows duality of one’s character and in some cases deficiency of confidence. But again I fail to understand that how FB can subsidize your confidence and how does it provide the coolness to chat with someone you never spoke to one-on?
Though I am myself a victim of facebook chatterati and would like to remain one but only by being what I am and not how I want others to see me as.
