"Facebook helps you keep in touch with the people in your life", it tremendously simplifies the interaction between people from all over the world, it is a rather widespread and immediate means of communication, now it can represent a real online photo album ... in short , this social network has improved our life!
Yet ... there are some "side effects" that the Mark Zuckerberg & Co. network has brought with it which, albeit perhaps involuntarily, have obtained the opposite effect going to considerably complicate "real" social relationships, becoming in fact a a-Social network!
The ten scenarios listed below will make you understand why this (apparently) bizarre statement!
Goodbye to birthday wishes, the real ones
Before Facebook, birthday greetings were almost a ritual: a phone call to find out where the birthday boy was, so as to reach him and give him the phantom two kisses on the face .. perhaps accompanied by a sound pull of the ears.
It was so nice to pretend to be angry with those who had forgotten him, to listen to their apologies and forgive them with a smile ...
Today, however, everything is more simple: Facebook signals and thanks to two clicks it wishes a happy birthday with two words or a random image taken from the Internet.
And who has seen ... has seen.
The important news? Always after all the others
Your best friend's wife has given birth or your sister has decided on the date of her wedding ... In a little less modern times, the phone calls to announce to you, yes right to you, the good news.
Because you know, knowing such a thing - and knowing that someone cares that you know it - is always nice!
Even today thanks to Facebook you can discover such things. In real time and without phone calls. Yes, but after that also the profile "I'm a Facebook bot" liked your friend's or sister's post.
Envy, tremendous envy ...
Facebook is a huge container of photos and your contact list is overflowing with more or less eccentric characters whose life will be unregulated, but far more eventful than your home-work-family-going out routine on Saturday night. And slowly, especially when you are a little out of sorts, you begin to wonder because he has his "exaggerated" life and you don't.
Yes guys, this is called envy.
Envy, tremendous envy ... (2)
You see your friends' posts totaling at least 10 Likes and 3 comments at a time. Then look at your posts, whose only "I like" is from that little stalker of your 10-year-old brother.
Suddenly you feel boring, but so boring, but so boring… you wonder because others are so sympathetic and you don't, perhaps ignoring the fact that Facebook chooses with a criterion not so clear what to show on contact timelines and what not.
And envy returns!
Spoiler, spoiler, spoiler!
The official pages of that TV series, that book or that movie are absolutely EVIL!
Imagine that you are subscribed to one of these dedicated pages and that, at any moment, a post like
We have just broadcast the latest episode of #StupendaSerieDiTendenza on #emittanteBellissima! What do you think about it? Did you like it?
And down the comments of those who really saw that episode and that they converse amiably about the events represented not caring highly of revealing unknown details to those who, like you, would have liked to enjoy it but had to work.
This is called spoiler. And yes, yours is called anger.
Farewell to the diet!
Personally, I believe that the most complicated thing to do after quitting smoking is to go on a diet after a period of excess.
And see that friend post photos of inviting cakes, steaming first courses and whole tables set, perhaps accompanied by the beautiful phrase "Buon Appetito", certainly does not help!
"Bon appetit a c *** o" you think. And you are right, because at that point or you fall into temptation or you will have a pout as long as your arm for at least an hour to come.
Once you interested me….
Beautiful, gorgeous. That girl has really taken your heart and you are curious to get to know her little by little and discover many things about her, maybe take her out to dinner ...
But post on Facebook 300292039 links that accentuate his strong animal rights nature, his profile specifies his life, his death, his miracles, his enterprises, his family….
In short, you already know everything. And no matter how beautiful it is… there is already nothing more to discover. Passed.
FOMO, FOMO ovunque!
It is called "Fear of Missing Out" - literally fear of being excluded - and it is an emotional state that finds its birth in social networks.
Se you have seen two or more of your contacts tagged in the same photo, maybe sitting at the bar sipping an aperitif, and there you are asking why they didn't warn you already feeling in the depths of the heart the "syndrome of the eternal excluded" ... well then you are in the grip of a FOMO attack.
And thanks to Facebook such attacks are becoming more and more frequent.
Self-esteem, this unknown ...
Anglophones call it "feeling blue" and ... it has nothing to do (perhaps) with the dominant color of Facebook, but it is that state of mind in which suddenly:
- the belly rolls seem more rolls than usual;
- your teeth seem too yellow to you;
- look at a hair and see the split ends;
- you begin to feel your skin to see if it is too oily or too dry;
- the world collapses on you;
- you feel perpetually out of place ...
… And so you decide to waste some time on Facebook. But its targeted ads don't help you: "Do you need a beautician? " "Cheap English dentists: here's how!" "The best hairdressers in your city".
And from blue your mood turns black.
Time is money…
... and Facebook takes away a lot, perhaps too much! Avoid ending up in the tunnel of other people's business, once the Facebook timeline is open, it is practically impossible: photo colleague photo, post colleague post, person colleague person, link link link, sharing attracts other shares….
And so that "I spend ten minutes on Facebook and then I get ready to go out" suddenly turns into "Holy shit I'm two full hours late".
Are you Facebook-moderated or Facebook-addicted? Have you ever experienced any of these situations? Let us know!
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