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What do you usually do after you finish watching a movie n u loved it?! After you ace an exam? After a trip with your close ones?! After you get PLACED?! After a boring day of college? After answering a totally untouchable question paper?! Or whenever you are happy…or even sad…or disgusted… or basically in whichever state that your stupid mind is in…?
Oh yea… I know!! You update a status on facebook!! You let the world know what you are feeling! You want your close ones to know what’s up with you and you want to know what they are up to & stay updated! No doubt that facebook is an amazing tool to stay connected with your close ones! Thanks to that zuckerberg who took the pain of launching this website! Amidst the controversies of the genuineness of idea, he somehow managed to be a smart n successful entrepreneur! That’s what matters at the end of the day…
Do we even care whose idea it was?! Hell no… we just keep updating statuses, liking others photos, commenting on them, writing on friends’ WALLS(that sounds weird! Doesn’t it?! ), messaging, n chatting all the time!
And worse…we even get scared when a spam message says that facebook will be shut down in a few days, which supposedly came directly from the Harvard nerd, Mr.Zuckerberg! Whether we like it or not, WE ARE HOOKED! You read that right… we are obsessed with facebook! I guess obsession won’t be enough to describe it! It’s more than an obsession! It’s a disease!!
People have started to update on facebook almost as frequently as they talk to someone!! Yea…but the only difference is that here, they are speaking to a virtual world! You have an update if your friend scratched his back, or if he farted, or if he is just bored! And when he updates that he’s bored, you have people who like it!
This has led to the discovery (I would rather go with invention!) Of a new disease from our medical fraternity, which they have termed OFCD! Which stands for OBSESSIVE FACEBOOK CHECKING DISORDER. Can you believe a website creating a disease?! A disease which has now affected over a hundred million people?! This has more number of victims than AIDS!
A statistic says, out of the 500 million people who use facebook, 250 million log in to their accounts everyday! And a 100 million of them report multiple logins within a single day! And this 100 million comprises mainly of college students and housewives!! Its true that college students are jobless…but what about the housewives?! They would be busy updating statuses like “MY HUSBAND’S HOME N I FORGOT TO COOK FOR HIM!!LOL!!” No doubt that would have a hundred likes from other jobless housewives! Its not long before guys start asking a girl if she’s hooked to facebook before getting married!
No offence intended to girls there! Cos another stat says that there has been a drastic loss in the productivity at many offices after the advent of facebook! This has gone to the extent that the companies have come forward and banned it in office! But still people find ways to sneak around and access it! Cos they can’t do without it! THEY JUST CAN’T!! People can’t stay away from it for a day… it’s like a drug addiction!! For which, am afraid, THERE”S NO REHAB!!
What have we turned ourselves into?! We love the virtual world than the real one! We feel happy befriending a person who wouldn’t even say a hi when we see each other. But still, you just sway your head to the friend beside you n say…”Dude, you see her??! She’s my friend on facebook!” N guess what, the very next thing your friend does is to login and send her a friend request!!
Can it ever stop?! Can people ever free themselves from this zuckerberg spell?! Well…not anytime soon!! I envy him! He has made himself the youngest billionaire just by using a freaking long code and capitalizing on some dumb people like us who are glued to facebook!! We have turned a nerd into a billionaire!
We are into this website so much so that we prefer spending time online than to spend it with your family, or real world friends! Don’t you think that we have isolated ourselves from so many real world social things? Haven’t we started to live in virtual reality? We have started to extract pleasure from owning a farm online, growing stuffs there, waging mafia wars, maintaining a zoo, feeding animals which don’t exist!!
I am not speculating that facebook is all evil and no good! It’s really awesome!! In fact I am an ardent fan of it! I do have an account on facebook and I do belong to that 100 million category with minimum two logins a day! And at least one status update every three days! But am honestly trying to get over this addiction, which has ruined my general reading habit. All the new novels are lying with an inch of dust on it! But the sad part is, I am clueless on how to get over this!
I am sure that there’s no way in hell that I can stop using it. But I just hope that somehow I can control myself from doing it way too often! AND START LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD!! And am sure many of you would want to!!
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PS: holy shit! I just used FACEBOOK to publicize this post!! SCREW YOU ZUCKERBERG!
