Facing Facebook

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It has been a while since I began wondering why people get addicted to Facebook. More surprisingly, no one, I suppose, seem to be interested on finding the very cause of the addiction. Condemning the addicted ones and preaching the negative impacts of this technology would not help anyone to keep away from it or even use it properly. I can see there is quite a reason for us to get addicted to it. But, I want my readers be prepared to face the truth before I tell them why they get addicted to Facebook. Anyone looking for rationality in this writing shall not go to the next paragraphs. Better he/she just quit reading and sign in to Facebook! I know am never good in cracking jokes! Never mind anyway.

I admit that quite many may the causes of such addiction be. But there is one we all never noticed or noticed it very well but preferred to deny it. It is something big hidden deep into the unseen parts of our personality. It is what we fight against every now and then. Oh! Why don’t I just go for it? We are all (addicted users) big-headed. Does the word sound unfamiliar to you? All right this: conceited, egotist. May your mercy be on me now!

  First time you login to face book your eyes look for ‘likes, requests or comments’ why? It is because you are excessively concerned about yourself. ‘How many people ‘liked’ my post or my photo; hey seven people requested to be my friends…somebody comments on my status’ All these trivial ‘my thoughts’ are what you experience on Facebook. Zuckerberg and his friends (he is the creator of Facebook by the way, his full name Mark Zuckurberg) have smart understanding of human psychology. Have you ever recognized the sentence structures Facebook uses? Example, Mr Max wants to be friends with you in Facebook.I know you won’t be requested to be a friend of somebody in your school, office or any place; or at least so I thought. You just happened to be friends with people in the real world.  On Facebook though, the thing is different; you get a request from some person who ‘wants to be your friend’ and you can ‘accept’ or ‘cancel’ friendship which is made so easy only for a click on the mouse. It makes you feel proud as if you are the important one. Sounds irrational, doesn’t it? But take it from me, it is true.

Uploading unimportant photos that you take moments back with your cell phone and writing how you feel, what you did or going to do every now and then is no more than a desire of letting the conceited personality in you promote itself. I am not trying to sound educated but, Encarta dictionary defines ‘conceited person’ as ‘somebody with an exaggerated sense of his or her importance, especially somebody who tends to speak or write about himself or herself excessively.

   Facebook is the best outlet for that conceited personality of yours that you don’t usually dare to display in the ‘non-facebooked’ world. I mean in school, office, market or else.

We all want to be famous and admired. Unfortunately, the world is only ready to admire you when you get things done. Meanwhile, Facebook came to existence. It lets you be seen on everycomputer screens of the worldfor your nonsense posts.  Face it. Face the truth that you let your ego out on Facebook till it gets you addicted to it.

Well, all I am trying to say is just better you be aware of the ‘why’ when you login to the blue magnet, Facebook.

Wait; wait, however, after saying all these words I want you to know that I am perfectly aware of the virtues of it too! After all it is the first-rate social network we have ever been lucky to have!