Facebook, faceback, whatever you choose to call it, has been consistently earning my disdain since my somewhat anticlimactic joining of Facebook. I was promised that I would be instantly hooked, constantly updating my profile and sticking my nose into other people's business. I was, needless to say, disappointed.
Facebook is a self-proclaimed "social utility", and while at first glance it seems that way, once one delves deeper into the putrid recesses of the website, one begins to realize how much like an online version of high school it is. You also quickly begin to realize all the reasons you hated high school. You are constantly being judged on how popular you are: how many pictures of you people have posted, how often people post on your profile or "wall" etc. There are also countless ways for people to anonymously (or publicly!) degrade you, through several applications such as the "Hot or Not" application, or the anonymous comment application. Other notables include the ability to compare all the people in your network from everything from taste in music, to taste in fashion to smell?!
I have personally never been subjected to such cowardly types of bullying, but even that the capacity to do so has been provided in such a popular and otherwise interesting and useful tool is annoying, to say the least. Granted, these applications are completely optional, but then again, so was skipping class in high school... And for these reasons and others, I am officially boycotting Facebook.
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