The first thing I do when I open my laptop on a weekend, or after work...or even during work is..yeah, no prizes for guessing there, is key in 'fa' in my address bar and thanks to the marvel of cached result search in Firefox, I am saved from typing the remaining letters to the most visited URL on my computer. The brief 2-3 seconds which usually my browser takes to load the site is probably the best part about using the site, after which the depression begins. Yes dear unfortunate readers who happened to stumble upon my blog here in cyberville, this is the story about two things... Me and Facebook.
Okay..it isn't exactly a story about me and facebook, I mean come on.. its just my general hypothesis on the whole idea of social networking. I am really not the one who pens down his thoughts so bear with me, as this is going to be a worthless article which I may or may not remove in the future.
Right so here we go, I recall 3 phases of my life on Facebook (makes it sound like a country right...yeeshh...)
1. Recently joined newbie: Back then you feel that the canvas for your thoughts has finally arrived. You wanna write stuff and immediately decide that you look like a fool as you get no responses for the apparent nonsense that you splattered for everyone to see. Okay maybe this is not the best place to write, but a place to see what your friends are upto, even though the ones you care about are really sitting next to you in the lab. Then there is another thing about the right profile picture, with me being horribly in-photogenic, life was tough..
2. The chatting period: Well, socializing never had taken such a setback. Who needs to go out and talk to girls when we've got facebook. Nothing more to add about that.
3. The starting to get annoyed period: When you see people posting extremely personal stuff, or when you see people posting pictures containing quotes which almost spell out their current life crisis. Pissed, you wana retire from facebook, but we really cant say no to the blue page can we?
4. I need to start a site like that phase: Now you are exceeding the limits of boredom and feel that you should try a hand at making websites as well. Only thing is you're still in college and the only thing you wanna do when you open your computer is play counter strike or do some private (<-- unintentional pun) research in your room.
Soon you only use that dream whenever you are sleepless and wanna fall asleep.
5. The Meme period: This is also the current theme of facebook. Everybody knows what a meme is, while it was popular on Reddit and sites alike, facebook was suddenly taken by a wave of them and is still currently flooded with crappy memes. Yeah back then when it just started it was mildly amusing (and I admit sharing a couple of those) but now it has gone too far. You see memes about things you don't give a sh*t about. Then there is the thing about reposting memes...wasn't bad enough that some idiot shared such a thing, now you gotta repost it adding to more garbage on your screen. There is a scientific reason why we hate bad jokes (too lazy to google the chemical....lets call it nopamine, the nemesis of dopamine). So everytime I open facebook, my brain pumps so much nopamine that it would kill an ordinary human, but since I am already so negative, thats ok.
Wow, I really wrote a lot huh, well if you are still reading this probably you're filled with nopamine as well, and really think how lame this article or facebook is. Now that I think about it, its not facebook thats lame, it's the users.
That is because we visit the site too often, when we do nothing eventful in our lives, nothing worth talking about so we share random stories. So lets live for a while, and share our experiences, as the site was truly intended...or quit facebook..either way really stop posting crappy memes.
