May 29, 2010 - Facebook and Youtube, is it worth it?

Sometimes i wonder if Facebook/Youtube/Other forms of surfing the net, is actually worth it. I know i, and some of my friends spend more than the average amount of time spent by a regular person on Facebook and YouTube, and i wonder what they just expect from spending so much time on it. Most of the things they do does not help with networking for their future, it doesn't educate them, it doesn't give them work experience, and it definitely isn't the best way of getting an income.

So why do we do it? Facebook's main purpose was to keep people connected after graduation and help people reconnect with old friends. But all it really does it allow people to "stalk" other people's profiles, trying to learn more about a person whereas they can't in real life cuz they're too shy to talk to them themselves. I see people who are CLOSE, CLOSE friends who don't talk to each other on the phone, e-mail or just by asking them out for lunch or something, but rather choose to publicly display their messages on facebook (probably not knowing that everyone can see waht they're typing), or people in relationships choosing to display who they love by repeatedly sending ridiculously redundant messages back and forth.

I understand how sometimes some people might choose to publicly send something out, because maybe it's an important thing that u might want to congratulate them on, such as getting a job, or winning an award, or saying happy birthday, to saying sorry for some1's loss or even notifying another person about celebrity updates (korean music, har har). But does messages such as "poke, im bored", or messages similar to this, nessecary? Subjective issue... i guess.

This issue also clings onto youtube, but i don't think youtube is as big of a problem then facebook, just time spent on youtube/facebook could definitely be used elsewhere.

Im not going to lie though, a couple weeks before, i was a huge facebook/youtube person. Everyday, at least 5-7 times on facebook and probably the same for youtube, for NO reason at all. But recently because of the other things i have been doing that forces me to not go on as much, (facebook cut down to 3, and only to upload/link to blog/hotel city and youtube to around 3-4 times a day) it has shown me that staying productive and doing stuff that builds on your future or hobbies is so much more...of a rush? It's sort of like, you look back on what you were, and you look where you are now, and you're just disgusted at what you were.

Anyways, it's been almost a full year since i've stoppeds MMORPG (MS and RO, and etc.), and dear god it is so exhilirating, and because im constantly working, i don't miss it at all.

(Street performer trying to get a little girl to perform with him)

Went downtown with Tai and Celina on the 28th, and the ROM. Very sorry about how long this post is.

-Canon Ma


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