FaceBook!!

FaceBook is the "in" thing now, everybody (well almost everybody) is using it, our life can never be usual without checking who leaves a comment on our photos or that who and who are in relationship or even better, break up :D. we maintain our relationship and friendship by depending on this medium and a lot of times people even fight among themselves over comments or whatsoever that is being posted on FB. Most of the people think that FB is useful because we only need to click and read, and information or updates of our friends are on our fingertips, it saves the trouble of posting a letter or better, meeting up with your friends over a coffee to see how they are. well, to me, FB is useful no doubt, useful for me to get to know new people from all around the globe and to be in touch with friends whom i've lost contact years ago (i really mean YEARSSSSS), but what about the human touch? what about the feeling of wanting to say something to a person and the satisfying expression from the person you love? we've lost all that!! A lot of people do not know how to communicate anymore, verbally, but they can all compete for the world's fastest typist, we've left the art of communication behind and what we do is, we read from letters and alphabets to see what is going on with a person's life (well such as blogging :P). A very funny thing happened to a friend of mine, she broke up with her bf and the next day they broke up, he changed his status from "married" to "single" and of course, a number of friends left him comments asking him what was going on, and the reply went back and forth but nobody actually called to ask and after a few days, as expected, case closed. what i'm trying to say is, nobody really cares if you are sad on FB because they can't see your emotion while u're typing, even if it's heart-breaking, they will not give a damn because they don't bother to know what you really feel, they are more concerned with what is written in your post. Things were definitely different years ago, when a friend was heart-broken, they went for a talk over a cup of frappucino at Starbucks and they shared their pain and agony, they talked about what went wrong and even gossiped about ex-partner, and miraculously, it fixed a little portion of the broken heart (everybody has experienced this, don't deny), was it because of the frappucino or the talk? or maybe because of both. Ask yourself, when there's something new happening to you (be it good or bad) and u post it in fb, how many of your friends there will actually give u a call and ask about it?? or they merely use 5 seconds to leave u an extremely short message or comment, thinking that this is enough to show the world how "close" you guys are. I've chosen not to disclose a lot about what is happening to me in FB, because to me, it has nothing to do with anybody and even if they know about it through my post on FB, it's not gonna make me any happier or more miserable, it just doesn't affect me. so why should i share my life issues with friends who merely share the same website and the keyboard with me? But undeniably, it is satisfying to see what's new with the person u have a soft spot for and checking your partner's fb account is almost as...........sinful and tempting as eating a bar of dark chocolate with caramel coated :P. i'm sure most of you have seen millions of pictures of that 15 friends in your FB, and pictures of them "cam-whoring" (as what they call it, to me the phrase really sounds fucked up because it is demeaning) in the public toilet, in the car (with a seatbelt strapped on) or in the mall. some might say they are just having the time of their lives and wanna share it with friends, the truth is, they want to show the Gucci bag that they are carrying in their hands or the Armani clothes they are wearing, or even the new camera phone that they use to take the picture. It leaves us to another issue, why are we so VAIN? Have we lost ourselves to think that all these things define us? But still, it's cool to show off once in a while :P so from now on, if you want to be treated like a human with feelings instead of words and alphabets, call that friend who changes his status from "married" to "single" on FB and that friend who comes back from the europe trip with the whole album-filled of pictures uploaded on FB :D

p/s- this article applies to friendster, hi5 and u name-it-all social networking website on the internet!