Facebook

The clock strikes 2:30 PM marking the end of our school day. Alas, it is the end of a tiring day and our brain has lost all its acuity by this time. Normally a person would be expected to go home and rest; maybe take a nap or watch some T.V. to relax. But we, the high school students, or teenagers in general run to our laptops/computers and log on to the depraved yet reputed website-Facebook. Oh no homework can definitely wait but updating our status to “Had a terrible day at school” must be done immediately in vain attempts to gain some sympathy from our esoteric fellow classmates. And so the process of procrastination begins. The debate over who has the most amount of homework, who has tougher classes and who had a worse day starts off and soon you realize its 6 pm already. Oh no we still have to reply to all those comments about how ‘pretty’ our supposedly artistic profile picture is. And so we begin our series of ‘thank yous’ and ‘no I am nots’. And by the time we’re done replying to our inbox messages and our wall posts and the rest of our fan mail, its 7 pm already. By now we have sumptuously wasted about three hours on Facebook and finally force ourselves to begin homework. But wait, “OH LOOK! A notification” and we go back to wasting some more time. Now it’s about 9 pm and we have done nothing fecund so far. So we garner ourselves to get off the computer and open our textbooks. When we go through our homework we realize we need to print a million pages of notes from our teacher’s website and so while waiting for the website to load our mind fiats us to wander off to Facebook, again. The idiosyncrasy of not seeing the little red highlight on the left side of our screen disappoints us a bit and therefore we start delineating gossips on Instant Messaging or “IM’ with our friends. The conversation goes something like this: “did you know [insert name] is in a relationship with [insert name]?” “But how did you find out?” “Obviously it’s on her profile.” “Ooh! let me stalk!” And so by the time we start homework its 10 pm already and consequently we’re up till 2 am working on our homework. This leads to our sophistry the next day about how we barely slept last night ‘doing our homework’. Facebook is not just a distraction from homework; it enervates one’s mind and acts as a dissocializing agent. Some people have hallowed logging on to Facebook and so they start living in the figments created by cyber-world and loose their touch with reality. It’s an ignominy that they are aware of what’s going on, on a friend’s Facebook profile but are impervious to the everyday mundane concerns which will actually affect us on a greater scale. Facebook also makes a person less social when it comes to real life because when one is talking to someone in real life and the conversation gets awkward one can’t always excuse oneself by saying ‘brb’(be right back) and log off on them. For once we actually have to make an effort and talk to the overweening people upfront. Sadly, I too am a culprit of this penchant towards Facebook and probably seem like a hypocrite speaking ill about it but my opinion still holds. And come on you have to admit such ubiquitous addicts are the reason you ever actually got a Facebook account and now even a nuance from your everyday routine of ‘socializing’ seems like a calamity.