The Facebook Complex

"Has our generation been ruined by social networking groups?" It was just one of the fleeting thoughts that occurred to me on one of the countless occassions when a supposed five minute glance on my prefered network, facebook, turned into an hour of nothingness. But, unlike the other numerous thoughts running through my mind in these sessions...this thought might have some actual depth to it. I mean come on...who thinks intelligently while zoning out over facebook?

Thinking deeper into the actual reality of "social networking" the whole concept is slightly awkward, paricularly the setting up of a profile. We are the first generation to try to present ourselves in such a trite way. We give ourselves one page in which we try to explain our being to the world---or at leasst the part of the world interested enough to look at it. Quotes are picked, likes combed through, and pictures carefully selected. We give ourselves a piece of the web and try to explain who we are in a nutshell. We released pictures of our lives, accounts of everything from drunken evenings to fights to break up's. Even the best of us facebook stalk people we have never even talked to in real life. We update statuses, volunteerly so our peoples can peep what we're up to...We laugh, cry, and get mad all at some shit we see over the web. The use of social networks has allowed for an exposal of self not previously had by any generation prior.

Maybe we want to share our lives more fully, or perhaps diaries were just becoming obsolete, or maybe this is just the beginning. Perhaps our kids will have every moment of their lives published on the next generation's facebook instanteously...

Who knows? I gotta go check my facebook

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