The Social Scourge that is Facebook.

I hate Facebook's partial replies, blatant indifference, lonely cynicism, and 'net glow' popularity contests... especially considering it all seems to carry itself into the real world. 
People need to spend more time hanging out with one another, and/ or spend more time hanging out alone... I mean, really alone. None of this shit where they tune everyone and everything out in favor of the lonely void of Facebook, Twitter, and the internet, in which they partake in the addictive and contagious habit of 'distant socializing.'


I believe, of no real fault or intention of its own, that Facebook is causing a deterioration of my generations social fabric. It has led to a decrease in genuineness and real social connections... perhaps because people spend too much time in the socially limbo state that is fragmented social networking. Instead of concentrating their needs and wants for social connectivity into the times they actually spend with real people in real life, they disperse large doses of that social energy into meaningless exchanges via Facebook, so when it does come down to spending time with real people, the connection in many (but not all) cases is noticeably less than it would have been prior to the age of the internet.      


It also causes people to have this subconscious habit of keeping people at arms-length, purposely reducing the amount of time they actually spend legitimately hanging out with people due to there being no need to catch-up with anyone in person, or even over the phone, because Facebook and Twitter keep you constantly up-to-date with everything you want or need to know about a friend, or a "friend" (quote, unquote).
Due to this constant updating, and a lack of reinforcement in the legitimate social connection you did (or would) have with this person otherwise, were you catching up via getting together... or, at least, over the phone... it causes an obvious social rift to develop between the two of you, in which obviously awkward moments can arise when the two of you come face-to-face in public, and know you know each other on a superficial level, but since there is no real social bridge between the two of you anymore, you simply gaze at each other for a moment, potentially nod, and move on. 
There's no need for conversation. The two of you already know what's going on in each others lives.


This leads to you feeling as if no one really gives a shit about you, your situation, or what you've actually been up too, causing you to give less of a shit about anyone else, their situation, of what they've actually been up too, undermining, quite obviously, many socially-related human requirements such as empathy and true interconnection.   


If no one can honestly tell... we're killing ourselves in doing this.
So cut-back on your use of Facebook and other social networking sites... go out and actually let yourself live without giving yourself the back-up plan of returning home to socialize at a distance. Don't bottle-up your needs and wants as a human being simply because you're too lazy to truly meet them. 


Please.
For the sake of us all, end your addiction to the internet.


I need to get on doing the same thing.