{"id":1869,"date":"2010-12-16T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2010-12-16T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T03:48:00","slug":"facebook-fooey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"Facebook, Fooey!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the fact that everyone is doing it, I’m staying away from Facebook and Twitter. There’s still something about the digital \u201csocial network\u201d<\/strong> thing that gives me the creeps. Well, I just read an article<\/a> on the British Guardian website telling me that I’m not the only one who feels that way. A writer named Oliver Burkeman says here that Facebook is a system of \u201cquasi-friendship\u201d. There’s a huge gap between what you read about a person on the Facebook \u201cwall\u201d or on Twitter, and with what their life is really like. The social network sites tell you about people’s successes, accomplishments and interesting experiences, but never discuss their doubts and fears. What you get on the Facebook wall is just what you’d expect from a wall, i.e. a two-dimensional poster image. <\/p>\n

Well, my thanks to Mr. Burkeman for putting into words what bothers me about Facebook. I believe that the whole thing goes deeper than a lot of people just having fun with a web site; it seems to indicate the direction of the social tide in America and probably Britain and Europe too. This tide goes away from sharing and honest communications about our innermost selves. We are becoming more and more isolated by fears of vulnerability and exploitation, or by just \u201cnot having the time for it\u201d.<\/p>\n

Whatever the explanation, I don’t like what I see these days. There are probably plenty of \u201ceternal students\u201d and \u201cnowhere men\u201d on Facebook; but I don’t plan to be one of them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the fact that everyone is doing it, I’m staying away from Facebook and Twitter. There’s still something about the digital \u201csocial network\u201d thing that gives me the creeps. Well, I just read an article on the British Guardian website telling me that I’m not the only one who feels that way. A writer named […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}