Facebook has become the "evil empire" of the internet and I am getting sick and tired of some of the things that are on Facebook. Facebook was fine back then, about 2-3 years ago when Farmville was around and when you actually saw what your friends are up to, but now it has turned into a whole mess of advertisments and annoying garbage. There are many things on the web - not just Facebook I am getting SICK of and wish it should cut down.
1. Baby photos - I am getting sick and tired of baby pictures. I know babies are cute, but it is the natural biological thing that every animal, not just human does. Babies are now being exposed to the web even before they are born in ultrasound pictures and you see every baby picture on the internet. The worse thing is that baby photos are born by some that are not even married, and that shows how much of a mess you are in. You should not brag about your baby - it's a baby. Every has been one and it was not that great. The puke, the poop, the pee, they fuss...why put it on the internet.
2. Advertisments on the news feeds - Facebook has turned into advertising and it has been a new form of social advertising, but it's getting annoying. You "like" something on the internet and you have another boring advertisement. I am getting sick of the ads on there - I want to see what my "friends" are up to, not ads.
3. Older people - I have nothing against older people but grandma has finally figured out how to use a computer - they get annoying with pictures of their grandkids and status updates about their ailments. Grandma on Facebook might be cool to hear what the good ol' days but they are boring when you hear all about the "old people" gossip and have them gripe about everything. Old people are the ones that made YouTube better - you see some old TV show or commercial, and it is fun to hear the memories spit out in the comments section. The old makes the internet interesting with the experience and wisdom that the young people don't have.
4. Relatives - Older relatives and and if I am related to them - who cares. I should show the world I have more of a social life than hanging out with relatives.
It looks like a lot of my griping is probably about not accepting the adult world. The adult world is all about raising children and working - they don't have any fun. They don't have any time for theirselves, which makes them very crusty. It looks like the college years are the only true years where you don't have any time for yourself before you have to go in the crusty world on the adult world. I have a sample of it when I am at my Wal Mart job - you rarely see any peers or anything like that, but you see just a collection of humanity. The college world looks very surreal compared to the adult world or the real world. It is nice to have a bunch of people the same age and it is very nice to find a date, but it looks like there is too much drama.
I am in this transitional state from the school world to the adult world, and I am not sure if I am ready for this. It seems like I am thrown a little bit in the adult, real world during the summer vacation and I start to act different. People don't care what other people think of you, but when you get in a school setting, everything gets all uptight and you have to follow a lot of social rules. In the adult world or the real world, you are just another person, but in school, you have to be with a certain group, etc. I am actually going to learn about this in college and it might be pretty interesting.
But I thought the interest is sort of my escape but really it is not. I wonder if the internet might be an escape from the school world or the real world. The internet is pretty real world and it looks like Facebook has gotten to be pretty stodgy. It must be the general population finally starting to get adjusted to mass technology that was dominated mainly by teenagers and young adults, or teenagers and young adults are not important any more because of the "self esteem" movement. For a while, it was children are to be seen AND heard, but now it has turned into the children are to be seen NOT heard, and that might apply on the internet. I think I might have to adjust to the internet or just life in general - I have been of importance too much in school but now I am just some random blogger in cyberspace that nobody cares to read about because I am only 21!
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