chelischili7 wrote:
I want to know how others feel because I often feel this way. People state opinions that are meaningless or stupid, yet they receive positive responses toward their responses. This occurs not only in everyday life but also on FB. People I know request me to add them and then they will respond to stupid statements like "Popcorn!" but not to interesting articles and quotes. I think this world would be a better place if everyone had their views heard.
that is the best short summation of facebook I have ever heard. Facebook is not the world though. Your experience there will vary greatly depending on what kinds of friends you have. It does seem a bit typical in terms of social dynamics though. Isn't it beyond bizarre that the things people talk about on there are things that pre-internet people would have found really boring to talk about? I'm starting to think it's a way to extend your popularity past high school, if you were a popular person. Because it kind of feels the same. Even though one weird thing for me on facebook is some of my older friends have 'got religion'. People I used to get drunk and high with all the time are now religious, one is a minister (albeit a gay minister), one is a missionary, the one that corrupted me the worst, lol. Etc.
I finally deleted mine, because facebook is just too boring and the CEO is creepy. And a disadvantage of it as you point out is it can make you feel. You friend a bunch of people from the past who post inane schlock and eat each other up, while you are posting deep things that are mind expanding, and you *feel* ignored. You have emotional reactions, that are, in my final conclusion, without merit. Luddites are populous enough in real life, why seek them out online, and then, worse, have them affect my emotional state. I really enjoyed reading the things that people on there who are thinkers posted. The only thing about people you don't know is you can respond to them a million times and they will never respond to you because they have 3000 friends and don't ever look at their feed. Plus famous people tend to have a narcissistic bent to them, so they are used to being the center and having adoring fans. I sent about three or four people notice that I was closing it down for good (people I considered real friends) and decided to let the other relationships go by the way of fate, if we run into each other again, fine, if not fine. I'd sent them all my e-mail address a long time ago though so if they are a friend of mine they probably kept it.