I am currently devouring What's Eating Your Child? by Kellly Dorfman, which discusses the relationship between nutrition and common childhood ailments. Last night I read that some studies have shown that sugar can be as addictive as heroin. Hold on, let me get some more chocolate chips before I continue.
Ok, now I have had my sugar fix.
My thought is that Facebook is as addictive as sugar and heroin. Facebook is evil. Sugar is evil. Heroin is really evil. Why is FB evil? Because they take information that normally should be private and expose it to all of your "friends". They make you believe you have control over your information but they 1) legally have ownership rights to all of the photos you post, 2) make your phone number available to any of your "friends" if you don't opt out and finally 3) are newly broadcasting your location whenever you log into FB (unless you opt out). This last one really gets me. Why does anyone, especially "friends" from high school or the gym who you don't really know, need to be informed whether you are home or not? Isn't that opening us up to a lot of vulnerability? Why does FB default to having these turned on? What is the real reason behind locating devices and owning our photos? What is FB really doing here?
Yes, I know that I sound paranoid and conspiratorial. Not to mention addicted.
You see, I really want to kill my FB page because I am not comfortable with how public it has become, but I can't. I like seeing the pictures and getting back in touch with people I otherwise would not have found.
So here are my options:
1) Clean up and delete my "friends" & block annoying posts. My account is otherwise as private as you can make it.
2) Kill my FB account and start blogging on a regular basis.
3) Leave it status quo and just keep getting pissed off at FB occasionally .
I think that I will probably end up somewhere in between all three options.
I have had some luck decreasing my sugar intake by only allowing myself sweets every other day. Maybe I should wean myself off of FB.
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Damn, I am out of chocolate chips.
Your not alone in your skepticism... thanks for the reminder to go change some of my settings.
ReplyDeleteIt is addicting, especially when it only takes a second... lol.
More often than not, that "second" turns into 1800 seconds!
ReplyDeleteI don't have Internet, but because I post photos all the time, I get notifications on the phone all the time, so I am always checking out my page on my phone. It is really very nice to have it everywhere you go. :)
ReplyDeleteI am not one that really cares about privacy right now, but if I had a family, I would certainly think twice about it.