Blog 8: Adbusters

For me, committing ‘Facebook suicide’ wouldn’t be that big of a deal. I have a Facebook but I don’t use it that often. I don’t have anything against it, it just never really clicked with me. I think of Facebook more as a way to communicate and keep in touch with others than as an addiction to ‘self-promotion’ or ‘self-obsession.’ I’ve never really seen the appeal to spending hours on Facebook to update your account every second you get. Maybe I just don’t like the idea of everyone knowing every intimate detail of my life. Unlike Carmen Joy King, Facebook isn’t an obsession for me but a tool. It’s nice to have a quick and easy way to communicate with people no matter where they are. It makes keeping in touch extremely easy. If your ‘plugged in’ all the time it is pretty much impossible to not know whats going on. It’s an extremely useful tool. But that’s all it is. Facebook isn’t a substitution for ‘real’ life. It shouldn’t consume your life as it did for Carmen but augment it. Too much of anything usually is never a good thing.