Facebook: social media breakdown

Sitting for hours at a computer doesn't help your health or your sanity. Looking at all of those photos, stories, messages, posts, games, jokes, drama, etc consumes a person. I know because I felt I put myself into a social media turntable that was like a vaccuum sucking your energy away. Now for what it is worth, facebook has revolutionized itself into an enterprise where twitter, instagram, and pinterest have developed in order to create a local and national community. Anyone can talk to another person and connect with them on the internet within seconds and now today via voice activation or the click of a button, texting from a cellular phone. Social media is enticing, it appeals to our sense of freedom, our sense of joy, the ability to share, personalize, and attract attention. I like to think of this website as the glitter of its age; sparkly, up -to-date, appealing, clever, but also very addicting. The internet is a tool where an individual can be so self absorbed, sort of like a teenager with their headphones on tuning out, or kids watching tv, their eyes glues to the screen as if it's their answer to everything. I couldn't help but notice, that although I talk to many friends on their and share food, and oh so much fun I'm having, that facebook seems like another kick in the pants to making American culture appear selfish or possessed. I wanted to see what it would be like without it, rewinding to before when the media site never even existed. No one knew everything about you, no one sat on the computer telling everyone what they ate or the whole world knows now you broke up with so and so or you just went hang gliding for the first time. It's almost as if it is a psuedo dating assistant. Say you just met someone, well you can do what some of my friends call: 'prescreening aka facebook stalking" in which you go to that person's profile and you learn everything about them from where they live to likes and dislikes. But where's the maturity and fun in that? Your new acquaintance hasn't even blossomed(just a name dropping) and you know this person broke their ribs in two places, and is in a complicated relationship, and you two aren't even friends yet! I would say it would be the worst non-interview slash interrogation I've been to. Everyone knows your business. People would argue a blog is the exact invasion of privacy, and that both are tools of informing your loved ones on a regular basis or communicating with other in different time zones, when skype and phone calls are next to impossible to manage. Even so, how many people do you actually truly physically know on your facebook? How many do you actually talk to on a regular basis? For me, the number was pretty low, in fact probably less than ten. the asburd amount of time spent on that site alarmed me, and I would share everything. I hoped someone would comment or like my posts or pictures, and then it's this cylce of oh they responded, so now I should blah blah blah. The site is a very good entertainer, but only for so long. I got to a point where I would check facbeook every day or hour as if the world would collapse if I didn't or I would miss something if I wasn't shall I say, 'plugged in.' That is the biggest problem here. Social media isn't plugging us in. I think it's plugging us out. We have the news, we have celeb gossip, we have drama, chaos, depression, and it's here where these aspects draw us in very easily. Human nature we like to be cared about, heard, but we crave excitement, adventure, new toys, and a system that works, so we don't have to. Wouldn't it be nice if it was the community was tuning in to what mattered, rather than sitting like ducks, in a pond soaking up media's ploy? The world doesn't work that way, and soon media will take over if we don't put our feet on the ground. How would you like to go to an employer and have them say, "oh I've seen enough, your facebook profile has done it's job." Websites are a gateway into our private lives, if we allow the invasion. once it's out there, there isn't a back button, or oops I made a doo doo, erase, delete, or oh I shared this post and shouldn't have, people there is no turning back period. I chose to disappear off the grid for awhile to see if I really missed being tracked and branded every time I would sign on. Facebook is our driver, and we can control how much people see and don't see, in a way. But how do you explain all the crime cases, facebooks stalks, hacks, or indescretions leaked, what does that say about us? Did we endanger ourselves? I am not here to bash the site, because i have yet to still draw my conclusion on whether to keep my account, (jury is still out), but I am here to say, it won't be a loss. If we don't have an account, we won't die, or we may not find friend whose been gone for 15 years, but we won't be better or worse without it either.  I try to consider it's value, and I have to ask what you risk when you share. it's more than "I cooked a quiche and it was awesome," or whatever, it's a breech into our security. Anyone, anywhere can have access to it in the palm of their hands, so what do we have to lose; Sign in or disconnnect?