Written in response to Roxanne's blog post: To Facebook or Not To Facebook …
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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i don't really use my phone for the internet - i find the small screen too fiddly, so i only look at FB when my computer is on
Society has changed - we no longer go to Working Men's Clubs, many of us work from home and we communicate less with our neighbors - growing up i knew the neighbors on both sides of my parent's house, but i barely know the names of the people next door to where i live now, but i think we still need that sense of community
The internet has changed the way we interact forever - much more of our communication is in cyberspace and its not necessarily a bad thing as long as we keep looking back to the real world
Look at it another way - the blogs that i read have inspired me and allowed me to communicate with people who inspire me and have interesting things to say, people that i would otherwise never have met - people like yourself -
Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 02:01:00 GMT-7
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Yes, let's not reject the good things about the net. But maybe there's more to gain from real life, face to face interactions?
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 at 15:57:00 GMT-7
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I’ve tried taking Facebook off my phone and I can last a week or two before I re-install it. Easier has been unliking all the George Takei type sites and then filtering the people who post Facebook-game crap (that means blocking my mother). All this helps cut down on the quantity I look at.
Is this what a smoker feels like? Facebook is there when my alarm goes off, then again before I sleep. I don't like that.
My current thinking is that this struggle we are sharing points to a type of loneliness. Facebook makes me feel like I belong to something. Community? The question is can I address this “need” so that Facebook loses its allure. I can live without what I read there so it’s not really a question of content. It’s the delusion of feeling disconnected that I would like to address. Perhaps we are not suffering from lack of contact with others, but instead from a gap in our connection with ourselves? Self-alienation.
I don’t know what the answer is. Cold turkey? Probably not. Heal myself instead? Maybe. At least Facebook has helped me see this inner work that needs attention. I feel some urgency also as my kids approach an age where they can do what I do on the computer. Gulp.
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