Yes, we always say “that Facebook”as if it has no relevance in our lives.
My Facebook account is as old as my blog if not older by a few months. I used to blog before at Friendster then at Multiply. Those two eventually closed. I had good friends at my Multiply site and we used to have healthy exchanges of ideas. A simple blog would garner so many likes and comments even if I only had more than a hundred friends there.
Here comes Facebook. Occasionally, I link my blog post at Facebook. It is quite easy to get in touch with your friends and long -lost relatives at the site. You can even befriend those people you have lost touch with a couple of decades ago. One thing though that I don’t like about it is that, it has become a smorgasbord of news and updates that sometimes are not relevant at all. Just for the sake of having something you could make as shout out or maybe just to update your site. There are now plenty of social media used in the internet but I only have three – Facebook, Twitter and of course WordPress.
Lately since the start of the presidential campaign last year, Facebook has become the source of ugly insults, maligning each of the candidates so to speak. Until now trolls are active in posting things that destroys the credibility of the elected officials of the land. It’s ugly and most of those posts have become viral. It is so easy to destroy a political enemy though this medium.
One good thing is you get to see the birthdays of each and every one of your friends. Never mind that you are reminded of those dates daily and sometimes you are obliged to greet them even if you are not so sincere to do so. Haha, they must think that you know all their birthdays. You also get to see their updates. You are even updated with a newly acquired cat or a new born puppy. You get to see all their pictures from the youngest member of the family to the oldest. Never mind if the pictures sometimes are so blurred that they use those apps on Facebook to make them clear and flawless. And you are a part of each birthday celebration that they have and every traveled places that they go to. Nice you say? Sometimes it is annoying. Unless of course someone is a true and a close friend of yours that you don’t need to be reminded of his/her special day.
Ah, Facebook where are we going?
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