FakeBook

FakeBook

By Josh Glazer

                So far I’ve spent two years on Facebook, accruing about 50 ‘friends’.  In all that time, I have never had a single real conversation with any of them.  Whether through ‘Messenger’ or otherwise, it was always a game of showmanship – look at my life.  Look at how many ‘friends’ I have.  It’s an evil competitive social game that is destroying the network of our society.

                To begin with, labeling people as ‘Friends’ on Facebook is an improper usage of that word.  I am pretty sure a friend is someone who cares about you, talks with you, listens, etc.  But on Facebook, a ‘Friend’ is an icon of a virtual persona created by an individual based on their own choice of events and information.  There is no real friendship there.  For people like me, who would rather have ‘Real’ friends, Facebook is insulting and depressing.  I don’t believe any of you are really friends.  It’s all a phony game.

                I disabled my account recently because someone I knew when I was 14, a girl I had a HUGE crush on, but who stopped talking to me at some point, friend requested me.  I tried to message them.  I even posted on their timeline – and they DELETED it, with zero response.  Finally, I said I was disabling my account, and they responded.  What a joke.  I disabled my account that day.

                Facebook is not real, and using the word ‘Friend’ anywhere in its lingo is immoral / unethical.  It creates more depression and anxiety in this world, and we have more than enough already.  Facebook and other social media sites should be boycotted, and real relationships between people should come back.  Smartphones and Facebook are destroying the social relationships that make up our culture.