facebook is still alive. Me myself i can't live without opening my account every single day. Facebook is a source of communication specially to family, friends who are in distant places. Facebook will remain for a long time unless the owner will give-up.
You can live just fine without it. There's no physical addiction.
That family and friends in distant places, it's easy to stay in touch over the internet (no need for facebook necessarily, although it can be convenient).
But how much time do you spend on this and how much value does it give you? Why's it important to stay up to date about what people in distant places does?
Usually people just brag on facebook. Most normal people never tells about their problems, so while Aunt Jolly and Uncle Tom posts pictures of nice holliday vacations, their nice home and their new car, the fact that Jolly sometimes cries when going to sleep because she doesn't get the emotional connection she craves with Tom, i never posted.
The young bodybuilder posts a sixpack pic, and pics with girls at a party, proving that he's good looking and popular. You don't see the pics from when he tests positive for clamydia and needs to alert his sex partners.
You see when your distant friend receives a promotion. When he gets fired for acting unethically in his workplace, you don't hear anything.
You see your cousin going to high school, and you see pics from various events at his high school, but you never get to learn about his insecurities, his social fears, his lack of success with girls
On facebook, we're safe - we can only like stuff. Hate and dislike is unheard of. You can direct your own life, to make it look perfect in the eyes of others, you can seek approval and build a status among your friends. In your life, there's never bad days - everything is fantastic, so let everyone know it! Then you can rejoice with the other perfect friends, and when the occasional bad thing happens, you can give your support by writing: "I hope you heal up soon!" but not really meaning it, or just ignore all of that and hope you don't get bothered.
You can control your emotions online, nobody can see what you feel, so you can hide behind the keyboard. Nobody sees that you're crying when asked: "How are you?" You answer: "I'm ok" - like any robot.
The shades of grey, the wonderful things in life, it's not shared on facebook. Only shallow empty mirages that's not life, it's all fictional. Life's not petting Tigers, going to exotic places, jumping from a plane or sitting on an elephant or taking a picture with a monkey on your shoulder.
Life's so much more - and the most interesting place - is the mind of a human - most humans you get in touch with - you will only be able to learn a fraction about how they really are - the rest is hidden, and when you see them online you barely see anything, they're even more hidden.
If you want to be with a friend, why not call that friend and invite him or her over? Why not just go and visit that friend?
Why not leave the computer completely, leave your phone at home and just go fishing?
