It's All About Facebook

Today I noticed that whenever I am in an internet cafe, generally about half the people on the computers will be on facebook. Half, sometimes more. That's just a fact of life. However, the last few days I've been updating from the library, it's rare to see someone browsing through facebook. Just goes to show that when people have to prioritize thier internet time, facebook gets the boot. What does that mean? Well, I think it means that it's not nearly as important to the general populace as some would leave you to believe. Anyways, that was just an observation.

I guess that now that I'm on the topic of facebook, might as well talk about it a bit more.

Whenever I meet an avid facebooker, I like to take the time to ask them what they like about it. Simply because I have such a hard time understand how you could spend hours at a time on it. I like facebook, but I could never be obssessed.

Generally when I ask people why they like facebook, I'll get an answer like: "You can just like talk to people and stuff" or "it's just a good way to waste time" or formally "scrabulous!". Not very convincing arguments.

So when I asked someone recently why they like facebook, and they said something along the lines of they liked how it was constantly being updated, so there was always new content to look at. I thought that was pretty interesting, because that's exactly the reason why I love my livejournal so much. Because my "friends" are continually posting in thier own journals, and in the communities. Maybe it's not all deep thinking, but I love how there are always ideas being expressed, in one form or another.

But are those really comparable? LJ is very content based. Facebook, not the same story. I can post three pages on LJ about how angry I am at my bestfriends, but I can't really convey the same feelings onto facebook.

Facebook is a great way to connect to people, and see what's going on with them, but I feel that it is a very shallow authenitcity. You see really only see the surface. That's not what I want out of my online presence. I want to contribute ideas, not just be a name and a face. What I mean to say is that I just don't feel like there is little sense in facebook connections that are meaningless.

Ok so this was a pretty poorly done post. Didn't put very much thought or effort into it. But hey, who's reading it anyways?

Really hope to get into some stuff soon that is less internet based, but we'll see how that goes.