Has our Facebook Obsession Gone Too Far? [GALLERY]

January 5, 2011 12:00 pm     Posted in Galleries, Reality  Courtney - Bridgewater State University g+ page


By Courtney

I, like every other college student, spend a fair amount of time on the ‘book, from creating party events, to shameless stalking of ex boyfriends, and of course, rick rolling people like it’s my job (never gonna give you up!). There’s nothing wrong with that; I mean, that’s what Facebook is for.

Unfortunately, as Facebook becomes more and more pervasive, for some people it’s becoming less of a place to post pictures and musings from their lives and more a place to actually live them. Remember the groom who posted on Facebook during his wedding? Funny? A sign of the times? Yeah, but also a little bit pathetic. And that doesn’t even hold a candle to these most recent Facebook updates….

Clearly, the world’s complete and utter obsession with Facebook has gone way, way too far. The site that started out as an easy way for college students to connect has now turned into a place that is quickly changing the way we all interact, phasing out face to face communication and creating new social problems as it goes.

What’s next on the social network frontier? I’m afraid to find out.

6 Comments on "Has our Facebook Obsession Gone Too Far? [GALLERY]"

  1. Emily says:
    Wed, 5th Jan 20112:28 pm 

    My cousin updated her status while she was in labor….now thats taking it too far!!

  2. Christine says:
    Wed, 5th Jan 20114:28 pm 

    I enjoy using Facebook to keep in touch and update people on things going on, as well as using it as a place to post my assorted "tokens of wisdom," but I've started to hate Facebook lately thanks to all of my friends using it to talk about real life. "Did you read my status?" No, because if I'm standing next to you, you can damn well just tell me what it said.

  3. Sarah Smith says:
    Thu, 6th Jan 201111:25 am 

    I'm in college and addicted to FB. But there are so many things on my wall that shouldn't be…like my uncle, my old high school tutor, and my neighbor who's like family. But I am too nice to not accept their friend requests. So I just joined this new called Flinkey and sent them invites to hopefully join as well. Its a way they can see how I'm doing in school and and also send me money through the site to my bank account. If my neighbor comments on one more of my pics I am going to scream!

  4. Sha says:
    Fri, 7th Jan 20112:10 am 

    if there was a like button here i'd be liking this right now ;)

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