Too much information. Quite literally. Someone mentioned the Christmas Round-Robin letter, a scarcely concealed boast about how brilliant their offspring Tarquin and Sophie-Charlotte at progressing at their expensive private school. Imagine that 365 days a year. Who cares ?
Maybe a few close friends and family, but sharing the most personal details of your life with 200 "friends" that prodded you online, is narcissic at worst, and simply not interesting at best.
Not everyone leads exciting lives, but this kind of site puts pressure on everyone to (
try to) appear fun, interesting, successful, attractive and all the rest ,however alien that is, rather than simply having fun being sociable.
I remember someone posted on a forum "Where is the most exotic place you had been on holiday ?". It became clear quite quickly that his intention was more to brag about his brilliant long-haul vacation than it was to learn anything new...
Sites that promote discussion or shared interests are great, but sites like Facebook hold no appeal for me.
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Originally Posted by swissflygirl  I'm really pleased to have found some of my best mates from my uni days through Facebook and sharing some pictures with them..... but am also becoming aware of FB's dark sides - the one-upmanship of exotic holiday snaps, the 'look at how interesting MY life is', the ability to be found by many including complete nutters, etc. I think I've sufficiently set the permissions to what I'm comfortable with in term of privacy etc, but would be interested in your views on Facebook - use it? Like it? |