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Facebook Set Up Us The Bomb

by on Oct.14, 2011, under Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb

Today’s society is bizarrely obsessed with constant information about everybody’s life in a concurrent stream of updates and comments. This has been facilitated by Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Twitter have enabled the perpetual ability to monitor and even spy on people whether they want to or not. While this started off as a novelty, this now has become a critical cornerstone of modern society, and I think that is totally crap.

While the premise behind Facebook was probably to either find out subtlely if the object of your desire is single or not, or to find out if your ex is miserable, Facebook has become almost a paragon of information as far as society is concerned. The notion that “it’s not official until it is on Facebook” is complete and utter shite as far as I’m concerned. Since when did a flaky and frankly unreliable database created for the purpose of unauthorised intrusion become so pivotal to today’s social interactions is completely beyond me.

The whole “friending” culture is total shit and accepting, rejecting and deleting of “friendships” seems to be perceived as being some kind of ordination in accordance of people’s friendship infrastructure, especially the latter, in which deletion of someone’s “friendship” is seen akin to declaration of war, or a pact of hate written in blood. It’s completely senseless. A simple disassociation of two objects in a table, in a database somewhere can cause irrepairable schisms of social circles. With that in mind, this is crazy, but this is what the world has become now.

I personally have no idea why people take Facebook so seriously. It seems ridiculous to me in concept that having a thumbnail of your face on someone else’s webspace means so bloody much! Just like most social aspects it’s just a tool of control. We in society have become slaves to this perpetual need to be round up and counted. People without Facebook accounts are ostracised and looked at with contempt, like they’re some kind of leper. It’s almost like it’s become some kind of stupid rite of passage in life.

Remember how the government tried to issue ID cards and there was a massive uproar about privacy? Well tell me how this almost compulsory necessity of having a Facebook page differs? Well one difference is that it has ALL your detail on show for the masses to digest.

So what, someone said something about you online, it’s just words, doesn’t make it so. So leaving snide status updates may give you the feeling of getting one over someone, when in reality it bascially broadcasts to the masses what a petty and sad loser you are! Anyone over the age of twenty leaving status updates to try and subtlely have a dig and someone needs to have a look at themselves using a database to broadcast their puerile ramblings. The positive premise of Facebook is to catch up with people you’d normally have lost touch with, no slander others anonymously, which has a giant flaw in that your profile is YOU, and there’s nothing anonymous about it!

Having an opinion is fine, and I suppose an online accessible forum for such catharsis is good. Unfortunately it is instead populated by people of diminutive intelligence harbouring the necessity to attract sympathy from others using an online portal. While anyone can see that this is a juvenile attempt so obtain faceless sympathy from a giant pool of insincerity, the fraught user can at least trick themselves into some kind of meaningless triumph.

Yes I have a facebook page, but no it certainly doesn’t rule my life. Whether you are “unfriended” (like that’s even a word) or dropped from someone’s “top friends list” on MySpace, it doesn’t fucking matter! Like most things in life it’s a problem if you let it be a problem. Why take offence to someone deleting off their Facebook friends? Does it change you as a person? No. Doesn’t physically afflict you? No. Sure maybe there’s a modicum of betrayal but it’s nothing that can hurt you in the long run. It’s just a stupid database and taking anything personally from this is just silly. If you break it down into your core components, would you take offence if you were disassociated from an SQL table? No, you’d get called a geek. Yet if someone deletes you from Facebook it’s bordering on fratricide. No it’s really not, but this is the world Facebook has carved into the rich marble that is today’s society. It’s almost fiction, and we are all the actors feeding the beast. Don’t let Facebook rule your life, let you rule your life.

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5 Comments for this entry

  • Whyte Rabit

    I couldn’t agree more. I live abroad now, so I pretty much only use facebook to keep up with mates I can’t go down the pub with every Friday night anymore… taking offence from someone “deleting” me as a friend? haha if you delete me, then I probably don’t want to know you anyway, no skin off my nose. I personally couldn’t give a flying fuck what my ex is up to, or who they’re shagging… they’re my ex for a reason, coz I don’t want to be in their lives anymore!

    And to bring up your point about national ID cards, I’m sure Freqmaster will elaborate on this point, but I’m sure facebook know a lot more about you than the government does!

  • MattyRasker

    I only use Facebook now for people to contact me, and to update it with my posts from twitter, my blog and my soundcloud account. I do not use it actively anymore I’ve tightened up all of my security settings. Oh, and removed most of my personal details too except my name and email address 🙂

  • Whyte Rabit

    I just got sent this: http://www.takethislollipop.com/

    It’s a creepy little Facebook app illustrating the security issues with having your whole life on Facebook…

    p.s. it doesn’t post anything nasty, or effect your Facebook page in any way!

  • Ette

    My idiot brother (not the nice one) went on an “adding spree” a few months back. Being on long term sick he got addicted to Facebook games and started joining the forums to add neighbours… you can all see where this is going right? So my brother (let’s call him Toolimus) was adding friends faster than Ed Milliband is losing votes. We actually had bets going in the family to see how long it’d take him to get to 500! In the end he plateaued around the 700 mark. Now I doubt outside of the family he knows 7 people let alone 700.

    One day he gets a message from Facebook Security, that’s right one of these “friends” had changed their profile name and asked him for his bank card details to “verify his identity” yup he did folks he gave them away! And he wonders why I didn’t want him tagged into photos of my son? Well the cub(tm) is far too precious to be shared with 700 people that HE hasn’t got a clue as to their true identity let alone ME!

    Well done Einstein!

  • Whyte Rabit

    Haha! Thanks, that’s just made my day lmfao! I was just drafting up a rant about stupid people… but that’s gotta top what I’ve got lol

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