Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Facebooking to Oblivion

Many often misuse Facebook by spending excessive time on the social networking website. The time spent on Facebook is called "Facebooking". Facebooking demands more time as more people are added into the social network and as new content providers add additional content to the social network platform. "Facebookers", or those who spend excessive hours on Facebook, are often more expressive than what they would normally be like if they were in person. This form of expression negatively impacts their real life social behaviour. Also, excessively looking through the history of a particular person, or "Facebook stalking", creates another social barrier. Hence, Facebook alienates real-life relationships, quite contrary to being "a place for friends".

1 comment:

Joe said...

I totally 100%agree! But I also feel like Facebook has its place. It's nice to know what my friends are doing on the other side of the world that I otherwise might not get to see.