I’m not talking about just “romantic relationships,” but I mean relationships between friends, family, and everyone around us. I took a break from Facebook, one month break from it. I noticed that I no longer worried or cared about people that are no longer in my life. And maybe that does sound terrible, but isn’t that a good thing? We no longer know “status updates” about someone with whom we barely had a relationship in the first place. The truth is that people fade in and out of our lives. Our real “friend” isn’t someone who has asked for your permission, but someone that takes time, the effort to be with you, to talk to you on the phone. Facebook takes all the “effort” away. You can look at someone’s photos without actually asking for permission, read notes without being genuinely involved, read profile information without uncovering who the person really is. Facebook, while it does make it easier to stay “connected” tends to cheapen relationships because it gives us the false assumption that we are actually connected with someone, without speaking with them face-to-face or communicating with on the phone. Heck, even email would be less impersonal, because at least your talking to that person individually.
The truth is Facebook will always be around. How we use it ultimately makes it cheap or not. The truth is people in our lives fade in and out and we move on no matter what the circumstances. We have to keep on moving on when relationships have run their course. But relationships will really show their test of time when distance is placed in between you and them. Does Facebook bring us really closer to one another? Physically or Socially? Or does it give us a false assumption that we have genuine relationships with other people?
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Definitely. Facebook definitely can be used to further relationships, by becoming a new medium which we manipulate for the purpose of supporting our real relationships.Wasting time on facebook really is a vice. You could just be on there forever . . . Although, for the record, I do have a friendship with someone almost entirely through facebook. We talk in statuses, notes, messages . . . and it’s great. Without facebook we wouldn’t have known each other at all. And so it’s good for that too sometimes. (This is the only case of it, which is good . . . real life is still where our relationships ought to be.)Good post.
You are right, but facebook is a way to preserve long range relationships.