Owyn_Merrilin said:
believer258 said:
On the news recently - yes, public news, the one that has such a reputation for misconstruing facts - reported that something like 80% of students said that they equated Facebook in importance to other essentials like food, water, shelter, etc.
Maybe Zuckerberg heard this and thought "I'm already rich, now I just wanna fuck with 'em".
Anyway, I think it would be great if Facebook's servers went down for about two weeks. That way people could actually go make real friends.
Which might be a bit hypocritical of me, because I'm posting on a forum, but I don't spend literally all of my free time on here and if it were to die off, so what? It's not like I couldn't find something else to do, like I did for the first eighteen years of my life, or like humanity has done for thousands of years.
Actually, Facebook is a part of normal socialization now. It's no different from e-mail or the telephone; people plan their real-world stuff online these days. In fact, Facebook basically is an e-mail client, just a highly advanced one that is useful for more trivial things, unlike actual e-mail, which isn't worth using unless you have something fairly substantial to communicate.
Maybe so, but declaring that it is a necessary part of life is sad. I know how handy Facebook is, and I even have a profile page which I visit more than once a day and use often. But I find people's absolute reliance on Facebook, or computers in general, baffling. If every single one of them were to go out for even a day, how would humanity cope?
Now I sound like a conspiracy theorist because such a thing isn't going to happen. Fuck, I need to go to bed.
EDIT: Also, "normal" socialization includes speaking, with your mouth, in person, to other people. Facebook is a very handy tool; nothing more, nothing less.
