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It strikes me like a needle in my skin any time I see people getting lost in front of their Facebook page, looking like zombies. It gives me that image of hypnotized people, people hypnotized into something they think its utmost important and necessary – socialization.
I think Facebook´s meaning
lost that limit of only being social, communicative, kept in touch with good
lost friends who would never say ´hi´ if luckily met them on the street. Now
Facebook reached the level of supremacy where it succeeded to keep people
trapped in their own mind, in their own cage.
For me, a non Facebook user,
while surrounded by people addicted to Facebook, seems sometimes like having
the power stopping the time and getting the chance watching them get
lost into that fantasy world. They do not even realize you´re watching them
because they lose track of reality, they don´t even know when the time passed
by … the only thing it wakes them up, it’s A ´tragedy´.
What ´tragedy´ may mean here?
Either they get dehydrated and wake up to reach for a glass of
water - water being the best case scenario if not getting ´drunk´ with the most
´precious´ and expensive killing drink like Coke or any other kind of today´s
Soda or the other ´tragedy´ meaning they starve and look for
anything they can reach ASAP – no matter what that is. Unfortunately there is
no other meaning of ´tragedy´ in here, for me.
And getting back to `Zombie`
term, Wikipedia gives this following definition: Zombie (Haitian
Creole: zonbi; North Mbundu: nzumbe) is a term
used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means
such as witchcraft; often figuratively applied to describe
a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet
ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli (in my described case:
dehydration or starvation) … Yep, not that far away from this definition, or?
Facebook addiction calls for
a ´AA´ session!
Sometimes
I get bored watching them; sometimes it makes me angry, and sometimes jealous.
I
finally know what real jealousy means. There is no difference in seeing good
friends getting ´trapped´ in other people’s heads and souls or getting
´trapped´ in front of their Facebook page.
They
stop having ´real´ time for you or for anything non Social Media related. They
forget what really matters, especially for you as a person; they could send you
a ´poke´ but not a ´real´ flower, they could send you a game invite but not an
invite outside in ´real´ life.
They
stop remembering small details followed by
more important things, until they stop remembering you. They forget who you are
in reality, what your needs are in reality, what your wishes and desires are.
They
will soon remember only that they
forget to update their Facebook page.
And
if that´s no tragedy ... I don´t think the classics knew what really tragedy
means when talking about or defining "the Tragedy" in their already
almost forgotten creations!
Ah!
