Facebook is an addiction that I satiate every single day. My presence on facebook is so important that I have notifications of activity send to my phone as text messages in real-time. Although I see nothing wrong with my addiction to this activity of measureless pointlessness, I do recognize it as a problem. I have over a thousand friends on this site, this number grows weekly as I meet more people and wish to follow up on them and vice versa. I embarrassingly admit that at events, I take pictures with full knowledge of what is and what isn’t postable on my personal page. The thought of facebook suicide is a terrifying one as many of the photos commemorating events, friendships, and memories are only available through facebook, and deleting my account would also delete my access to those well documented portions of my past. The only reason I would ever delete my facebook page would be if it interfered with my professionalism or due to my concerns with privacy and the fact that facebook is by far the book of my current life.
What does the future hold for my online socializing culture? The answer is in constant flux, I’ve had my facebook page for 6 years now and don’t consider what it was then a precursor to what it is now. There is no status quo for facebook, it is a strong corporate model that will evolve with our online habits and create the need for itself through penetrating our dependence of self-display. And even if facebook succumbs to widespread suicides, wouldn’t our need to put ourselves out there create the demand for a new similar medium?
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