I'm with so-and-so doing such-and-such, text me!

So, let me rant about Facebook a little. I'm an avid Facebook user. I enjoy using it. I think I hate what it's doing to us. "Us" as in the world. It's really a good thing, being able to talk to our friends that we don't get to see on a regular basis. And it's more convenient than talking on the phone (for some reason.) Something about seeing and being seen appeals to us as humans. And it's a little like being a celebrity in your own world. People know and can see what you're doing. I have to admit, that really creeped me out at first. I went to my settings and made it so nothing would ever show up on other people's feeds. And everyone is a creeper! We always know what's going on with the people we have added even if we aren't really friends with them. It's a little unnerving to know that I'm a creeper.
"Did you hear blankety-blank broke up?"
" NO WAY."
"Yeah, yeah, Facebook told me."
We can upload the picture that makes us look best, write out our good qualities (and even some qualities we don't have but wish we did) and tell the world what we're doing at any given moment. You know, not all together bad things. But then there's the people that update their status every five minutes. "I'm with so-and-so doing such-and-such, text me!" "Now so-and-so and I are making an appearance at this place so you should join us!" Does anyone else think that giving people the ability to update their status on their phone was an insanely bad idea? Then there's the quizzers, the application-ers and the chain note-ers that tag you in everything and ask you to join their zombie squad (or whatever those people do) for the 6o billionth time. And don't you just find it utterly annoying, when you see a group of people taking pictures and you just KNOW that the second they get home they're going to post them. People don't take pictures to have memories anymore. They just want to show their friends what they've doing, where they've been doing it, and with whom they have been doing it with. And EVERYONE is a photographer. Don't get me wrong, some people really do have talent with a camera. Maybe it's just me, I don't know. Also, Facebook has really made our generation forget how to socialize normally. Have you heard of people breaking up with each other by changing their relationship status? They don't tell them, just change it and they'll see it when they see it. We can't have normal conversations without a computer screen and miles between us. People chicken out and have important conversations over messages and texts rather than face to face. And meeting people and the rapes.......I'm not even going to go there. It's a changing world, I realize that. Doesn't mean I have to like it or embrace it. But, I suppose, the most I can do is refuse to participate (and blog about it.)

--Jenn