The Facebook Curse?

[Abishai100]

When computers were first invented for personal use (through the pioneering market-work of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates), people were re-imagining what it meant to have convenient access to data-compression, data-transmission, and data-commercialization.

Suddenly, using computers was as exciting as playing video games at the local arcade, and this changed the face of capitalism and paved the way for tech-market successes of NASDAQ.

Then came the phenomenon of social media websites --- i.e., MySpace and Facebook.

Facebook quickly usurped MySpace and dominated the global market in the social media industry.

Today, businessmen, politicians, and celebrities alike advertise on Facebook, and countless people from around the world are active members, uploading and sharing personal photos on its public bulletin board daily.

Facebook is like the new MTV.

Unfortunately, like MTV, Facebook entices us with hours of meaningless brain-candy and junk-food computer/Internet log activity. You can play games on Facebook, download apps, and chat (while uploading and viewing photos). Like MTV, Facebook induces a sort of pseudo-dangerous mindless staring at screens for hours-on-end.

Well, I have no grudge with MTV (and enjoyed watching it growing up in America), and I like Facebook and am a member myself (I maintain a small page with only about 75 close friends and contacts).

However, I wonder if this new age 'pseudo-obsession' with media, TV, computers, smartphones, and the Internet has made Facebook a 'portal into fanaticism.'

Here's a mock dialogue about computer-obsession between Mark Zuckerberg (billionaire co-founder and head of Facebook) and Bill Gates (pioneering leader of Microsoft, which revolutionized the computer software and operating-system markets).


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ZUCKERBERG: It's great, Facebook is almost like CBS!
GATES: Except there's no "Little Orphan Annie" on Facebook; it's all junk food!
ZUCKERBERG: Americans love junk food.
GATES: Americans also appreciate commerce, which is why Facebook is so useful.
ZUCKERBERG: You and Steve Jobs changed the personal-computer market.
GATES: We didn't want home-computers to become excuses for obsession.
ZUCKERBERG: It's simply convenient to do your Christmas shopping online now!
GATES: The computer is a medium, not a crutch.
ZUCKERBERG: What's the difference then between Napster and Enron?
GATES: User-friendly commerce is not the same as the trading-floor (Wall Street).
ZUCKERBERG: Do you think Microsoft will be remembered as 'evil Big Brother'?
GATES: No, I think it will be respected similar to how Disney is respected.

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[Kat]

That is why I rarely go to my FB. I do like that I was able to reconnect with some school buddies, but after that I hate it. I go now and then. Some live on it...playing games and all that.

 

[waltky]

Granny don't go to Facebook...

... she stays away from social media sites.

 

[Kat]

Granny is smart!

 

[Alex.]

When computers were first invented for personal use (through the pioneering market-work of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates), people were re-imagining what it meant to have convenient access to data-compression, data-transmission, and data-commercialization.

Suddenly, using computers was as exciting as playing video games at the local arcade, and this changed the face of capitalism and paved the way for tech-market successes of NASDAQ.

Then came the phenomenon of social media websites --- i.e., MySpace and Facebook.

Facebook quickly usurped MySpace and dominated the global market in the social media industry.

Today, businessmen, politicians, and celebrities alike advertise on Facebook, and countless people from around the world are active members, uploading and sharing personal photos on its public bulletin board daily.

Facebook is like the new MTV.

Unfortunately, like MTV, Facebook entices us with hours of meaningless brain-candy and junk-food computer/Internet log activity. You can play games on Facebook, download apps, and chat (while uploading and viewing photos). Like MTV, Facebook induces a sort of pseudo-dangerous mindless staring at screens for hours-on-end.

Well, I have no grudge with MTV (and enjoyed watching it growing up in America), and I like Facebook and am a member myself (I maintain a small page with only about 75 close friends and contacts).

However, I wonder if this new age 'pseudo-obsession' with media, TV, computers, smartphones, and the Internet has made Facebook a 'portal into fanaticism.'

Here's a mock dialogue about computer-obsession between Mark Zuckerberg (billionaire co-founder and head of Facebook) and Bill Gates (pioneering leader of Microsoft, which revolutionized the computer software and operating-system markets).


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ZUCKERBERG: It's great, Facebook is almost like CBS!
GATES: Except there's no "Little Orphan Annie" on Facebook; it's all junk food!
ZUCKERBERG: Americans love junk food.
GATES: Americans also appreciate commerce, which is why Facebook is so useful.
ZUCKERBERG: You and Steve Jobs changed the personal-computer market.
GATES: We didn't want home-computers to become excuses for obsession.
ZUCKERBERG: It's simply convenient to do your Christmas shopping online now!
GATES: The computer is a medium, not a crutch.
ZUCKERBERG: What's the difference then between Napster and Enron?
GATES: User-friendly commerce is not the same as the trading-floor (Wall Street).
ZUCKERBERG: Do you think Microsoft will be remembered as 'evil Big Brother'?
GATES: No, I think it will be respected similar to how Disney is respected.

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I use FB and other similar sites to show my art and music ..... I reconnect with no one. there was a reason why I left the person, place or situation and to go back and expect different results is one form of insanity.

 

[Abishai100]

Distributing Brain Food


Well, this is the age of photos, so we can think more prudently about how we circulate images of 'little indulgences' rather liberally.

Is it commerce or pornography?