Glitch2028 wrote:
I hate having a facebook. What am I supposed to do with it, beyond enabling serial friend-collectors and indulging superficial connections with people I wont ever speak to beyond a random, cursory regard? Why is it that nobody responds to poignant, philosophical probings or scientific observations, but people rush to the most, salacious and sensational banalities like a pack of starving dogs? Phronemophobia? Ideophobia? Escapism? Affinity for mind-numbing, self-aggrandized abstractions and platitudes, that put needless importance on such mundaneness as what one ate for breakfast; where he is, precisely, at a given point in time; and which of his thirty-two teeth is mildly sensitive to beverages cooled below room temperature? The whole dynamic bothers me. Moreover, I'm socially marginalized enough in real life, avolitionally - why reenact that same headache online, of my own free will, in order to integrate myself into a mass convention that extols quantity over quality; that lauds words, for the sake of words; and that contradictorily allows for profligate degrees of interaction, but without the substance that would suppose a worthwhile communication?
Also, even though I've not been posting here long -- only four times or so since I was diagnosed -- I prefer the format of WP more. The format of FB drives me insane... it reminds me of reading some wordsearch where you have to weed significant strings of information out from a larger, inscrutable chaos. I dont even bother reading my feed anymore, because it makes me tired... I have maybe, three or four people I would truly like to keep in contact with there. Though I would actually prefer they email me, because I work so much better two-on-two; so I think I'm going to delete it
There's no rules saying how you should use facebook. You're over thinking. Chill out.