I dislike Love Hate relationships. Mostly for the matter that I cannot decide whether to love or hate. And I terribly dislike sitting on the fence. It's rather uncomfortable. Here is my dilemma. can you guess? It's rather anticlimactic.
Facebook. Yup. Just typing that word is kind of satisfying, only on account of that little red squiggly line under it that tells me its not a real word yet. phew.
About a month ago I said to myself that I would love love love to delete facebook. But then again. I would hate to delete facebook. Love hate love hate love hate. dilemma.
so why would i delete it?
1) to push better, deeper, realer, less virtual friendships. (you know... to plan and invite via telephone and face to face rather than creating an event hoping people see it)
2)to get rid of time waster. seriously. news feed. status updates.peoples pictures i don't even know. i read them. and i don't need to. (though i have gotten better... i can still subdue to its time wasting temptations.)
3) to stop filling my mind with random and pointless information about 500 different people that i wouldn't really care otherwise. like the fact that you're eating popcorn. or that you really like rainbows. or that you're waiting for a package. or whatever it may be.
4) to stop telling everyone else pointless and random information about my own life. like the fact that i am eating popcorn or the fact that i really like rainbows, or even the fact that i am expecting a package.
- to not have serious personal conversations on the not so serious impersonal facebook chat.
5) i really don't care what superhero, twilight character, movie star i am. i am not any of those thank you very much.
6) i really don't want to play farmville or fish tank whatever.
7) poking. really?
8) seeing events all the time that you can't go to or weren't invited to and kinda wish you were. or worrying about people who would be sad if you didn't/couldn't invite them.
i feel like i could go on. but for sake of time and your boredom i won't.
so then... why wouldn't i delete it?
1) out of town/country friends. so easy to keep in touch.
2) pictures! as much as they waste my time... i really do love looking at them! and its an easier way to share pictures!
3)...
4) should i take this as a sign?
so hate far outweighs the love. but the love ones... are biggies.
i don't know what i should.
so.
bah.
i think i will. or maybe not. that is where i am at.
Imagine... If i didn't have facebook? I would have so much extra time. I would listen in class more (maybe). Instead of needing to waste an hour and going to facebook, i could use that hour to walk, or scrapbook, or read, or anything else that is thousands of times more productive.
I think i may be mostly convinced.
What do you think? Love? Hate? Should I or shouldn't I?
3 comments:
oh. i just had this "discussion" in my own mind. like a million times ever since i got facebook.
i decided that facebook is helpful. not necessary but helpful. i think i'd completely lose track of my youth girls if not for facebook.
i've just been careful about not wasting time on it.
it's like any other thing--you can use it wisely or foolishly, but the fault is not in the invention itself.
right?
right after i wrote this last night i went on facebook and saw something that made me almost delete it then and there.
i am back on the fence.
Quit! Quit! I did and have not yet regretted it. In fact, the absence of it has taught me just how much it had skewed my perspective on relationships-- and I thought that I had been keeping pretty good tabs on the impact I was allowing it to have.
Just my humble opinion. :)
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