First of all, as a person who was recently slightly ridiculed in front of a class of 19 year olds, young people don't deign to Facebook anymore. It's all about the SnapChats and the Twitters and Tumblr.
Second of all, I 100% agree with TSQ. If you don't like Facebook or it doesn't seem useful to you, then maybe it's not for you. But don't condescend to those of us who do find use for it.
I had friends in high school, and while I don't care to talk to each and every one of them, I am happy to see when someone I was friends with got married or had a kid or got promoted or travelled somewhere I'd like to go. I love seeing pictures of my nieces and nephews, and I love having conversations (much like here) about topics in my community or groups I'm in.
Yeah, there's some ego tied up in it. I check to see how many people react to a post of mine or write on my timeline. That's part of it. But it's a very small part. In the past, a much larger percentage of people lived and died in their hometown, or very close to it. I was born in Austell, GA. I lived in 8 different places before I was 14, and three different countries. I went to college 800 miles from where I graduated high school, my first job after college was 3,000 miles from there. I have friends literally all over the globe. The easiest and most convenient way to stay in touch with them all is through social media.
So you can look down your nose at what ills social media has cast on our society, and there are plenty. But connections are kept that would be gone. I think that's worth it.
Second of all, I 100% agree with TSQ. If you don't like Facebook or it doesn't seem useful to you, then maybe it's not for you. But don't condescend to those of us who do find use for it.
I had friends in high school, and while I don't care to talk to each and every one of them, I am happy to see when someone I was friends with got married or had a kid or got promoted or travelled somewhere I'd like to go. I love seeing pictures of my nieces and nephews, and I love having conversations (much like here) about topics in my community or groups I'm in.
Yeah, there's some ego tied up in it. I check to see how many people react to a post of mine or write on my timeline. That's part of it. But it's a very small part. In the past, a much larger percentage of people lived and died in their hometown, or very close to it. I was born in Austell, GA. I lived in 8 different places before I was 14, and three different countries. I went to college 800 miles from where I graduated high school, my first job after college was 3,000 miles from there. I have friends literally all over the globe. The easiest and most convenient way to stay in touch with them all is through social media.
So you can look down your nose at what ills social media has cast on our society, and there are plenty. But connections are kept that would be gone. I think that's worth it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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