Dear Fellow Facebook-ers,
Warning:
If you take offense very quickly and want to kill after reading the first line,
stop right here. I don’t want your silly opinion about how what you do is
right and what I should do.
Still reading? Okay.
I am tired of you. And every time I open Facebook, I
want to cry. And YOU who identify with the traits mention below, are the
reason. Facebook has ceased to have any importance because of YOU.
What you don’t seem to understand is that you’ve lost
all your common sense, I don’t know where, and have so far not been able to get
it back. Here’s the deal: STOP making a fool of yourself.
We understand you want to share your life’s event’s
pictures. But trust me, going to city walk every other day or metro pictures,
those are certainly not your “life’s events”. Add to them your editing skills –
what are you trying to do? On top of that, you want to explain your day using
pictures. I don’t care what story happened in that metro. It would seem still
sensible had it come once a month. I can’t believe how free you are to do this
every damn day.
DON’T share those ugly looking pictures of injured
children/battered wives/creepy animals. Your “share” is not going to help; I
guess you’re old enough to understand that. You should rather help to take them
off Facebook.
When you post “:(”, “I wnT 2
cRyYy….”, “I Wnt 2 DIE. LiFeee……nT sOo GoOD…..” and other similar stuff, you
are labeled as one attention grabbing idiot, if I may say so. On top of that,
when someone asks you, you’ll reply with “kuch nahin yaar….”. Obviously
something is wrong. And obviously the person asking is also an idiot because
your true friend would’ve called you even before you posted this message. Also,
updating your status every two seconds is NOT a good idea.
Your boyfriend coming to meet you is a major deal, I agree.
But if you post 10 pictures/statuses each day on what you guys did and stuff, I’ll
metaphorically slap you and sincerely hope you break up. Also, Facebook isn’t ice cream
therapy. If you’re sad about a break up, call your friends.
Someone died in the family? Oh let me post it on
Facebook. This is the worst attention grabbing technique. Why would you want to
tell your entire friend list, which consists of meaningful and meaningless
people, about such a grave matter in a Facebook status update?! Seriously? No,
even if they are sick, you can’t. There’s messaging and phone and all kind of communication stuff for this. At least respect the person who lost his/her life or is struggling
to keep it?
Facebook is a social networking site, if you will. You
get back with old friends, keep in touch with new ones all day and if you’re
interested, befriend new people. Not your daily log. I repeat. Facebook is NOT
your daily log.
We might have, at some point of time, done this
(except for the last point, even I’ve done a lot of the above). But we learn
from our mistakes. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. Why don’t I just hide
these updates or better yet, deactivate Facebook? That’s because sometimes
there may be important updates there. Some people can’t be hidden since their
updates might be important (and once the importance goes, they’re also out of
my friend list).
Just common sense and social etiquette. And the world will be better place to live in.
These are only a few of the woes I have regarding you. I wish you a better life
and hope some common sense gets instilled in you magically.
Sincerely,
Living on hope.
Living on hope.
