Vzpon in padec Facebooka --- Rise and Fall of Facebook

Facebook mi pove, da ga uporabljam od leta 2008. Torej že sedem let. Pravljično število? Ravno pravšnje, da se najina skupna zgodba konča? No, ne mislim izbrisati profila, je pa res, da se moja aktivnost na Facebooku skozi leta drastično spreminja. Na začetku, sem kot tipična najstnica objavljala VSE. Ko sem šla pred kakim letom brisati stare objave, sem se resno spraševala, koga hudiča je zanimalo kdaj grem pod tuš??? Ampak dobro, mladi in neumni. Kasneje se je aktivnost preusmerila bolj v objavljanje fotografij, predvsem po tem, ko sem se začela s fotkanjem tudi malce bolj resno ukvarjati. Zadnje čase se skušam kontrolirati in objavljati čim manj, kajti Facebook je iz socialnega omrežja prerasel v vse kaj drugega. Včasih je bil Facebook bolj kot skupina prijateljev, dejanskih PRIJATELJEV, ki so si izmenjevali informacije, se pogovarjali o stvareh, izmenjevali mnenja. Sedaj je Facebook oglaševalska platforma. Ko se prijaviš te na zidu pozdravijo predvsem igrice in nagradne igre, kakšna reklama in vmes morda kak osamljen primer dejanske novice o nekom, ki ga poznaš in bi o njem rad kaj izvedel. Tako je s stvarmi, ki jih na Facebooku ti prejmeš, kaj pa tisto kar oddajaš? Sama sem se včasih po Facebooku kar precej razpisala. O marsičem, o kakšnem filmu, ki sem ga pogledala, o kakšni družbeni problematiki, kakšni smešni anekdoti, ki se mi je zgodila, ali pa o izdelku, ki me je res prepričal, ali pa razočaral, seveda. Žal sem ugotovila, da Facebook skupnost ne ve več čemu je namenjena. Tovrstne objave so ponavadi naletele na nekaj všečkov, ki mi pomenijo toliko kot lanski sneg, nekaj komentarjev, pozitivnih ali negativnih, ki so včasih prerasli v debato (čemur naj bi bila socialna omrežja namenjena) in na koncu so šle marsikatere objave v nos tistim, ki jim jaz pravim Facebookovi fantomi. Nikjer jih ni, nikoli ne komentirajo, lajkajo, pljuvajo Facebook po dolgem in počez, vedo pa za vsakega kaj objavi, koliko časa je na Facebooku prijavljen in tako dalje. Zato sem počasi izgubila voljo za pisanje česarkoli na Facebook, kajti mislim, da ljudje enostavno ne znajo več razumeti koncepta Socialnega omrežja. Facebook naj se torej popolnoma spremeni v zidove polne selfijev, na pol golih slik mladoletnih deklet, ki si želijo nekaj všečkov in pozornosti. In pa seveda neumnih statusov v stilu: Stari, kva smo se ga nabil. Mislim, da, kadar bom že hotela, ali morala, kaj povedati, bom od zdaj naprej to počela na druge načine.

Pred dnevi me je prijatelj vprašal, če bi se za čas posta odpovedala Facebooku. Rekla sem, da ne ker še vseeno uporabljam Facebook za komunikacijo s prijatelji, bla bla bla! Večinoma le izgovori, ampak vseeno, profila ne mislim izbrisati. Prijatelj je to sicer razumel, a se je vseeno odločil za 40 dni, morda za vedno, odpovedati Facebooku. Pravi, da zato, ker te alternativna realnost, samovšečne in samopromocijske objave in kopica nepotrebnih informacij, ki jih vsakodnevno prejemaš, hitro zmedejo in preusmerijo tvojo pozornost s stvari, ki so resnično pomembne. In prav je imel.

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Facebook tells me that I've been using it since 2008. That's seven years now, fairytale number, huh? Just right to end this relationship? Well, I'm not gonna delete my account, but the truth is, that my posts have drastically changed through the years. When few years ago I started deleting my old posts from when I first started, I was shocked. Who the hell cared when I went to shower??? But I was young teenager. And stupid. Later on, I was posting lots of photos, even more so after I started spending lot of my time with photography. Recently I'm really trying to control myslef with what I post, because Facebook has become anything else then what it should be; Social Network.  It used to be a group of friends, real FRIENDS, who shaered information, talked about things, shared opinions. Now, Facebook is just another advertising platform. When you log in, your wall is full of advertisment, games and other stuff, among them there may be some lonely post that acrually tells you something you really want to know, for example what's new with your friends. And that's the stuff you get when using Facebook. But what do you give? I used to write long long posts on Facebook about anything that came to my mind. About some movies I've seen, some society issues, funny or interesting things that happened to me or a product that I was (or wasn't) happy to get and use. But I've sadly realized, that Facebook community doesn't know why it exists anymore. This kinds of posts has usually got some likes (which I really don't care about), some comments which has sometimes developed in a debate (and that's why social networks should exist in first place), and at the end, this kind of posts have caught an attention of what I call Phantoms of the Facebook. People that don't post, don't like, don't comment and are never online. but ALWAYS know what you post and how much time you spend on Facebook. And they like to remind you about it very frequently. So I really lost my will to post anything worth saying on facebook, because I think that people no longer understand the concept of Social network. Facebook will sooner or later change into walss full of selfies and half naked photos of underaged girls, longng for likes and attention. And of course statuses like: Dude, we were soooo wasted last night! And I will find another way to tell what I want or need to tell.

My friend most recently asked me if I would go off Facebook until Easter and I said that I won't because I still use it for things like communicating with people blah blah blah. Mostly just excuses but still, I don't mean to delete my account. The friend understood, but he said tha he will delete his account for 40 days until Easter, or maybe forever. Because the alternate reality of Facebook, it's vain posts and a bunch of information you really don't need to know, can easily distract you and change your focus from things you should be doing. And you know what, he's right.