Over the past few days I have been pondering the reasons I have for removing myself from the very popular and addictive social network site known as “facebook”. There weren't many reasons why I joined the social network in the first place. I basically wanted to be apart of what everyone else was apart of, but I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Growing up I was always living my life through others or even better not living it at all. In high school I always considered myself as having friends, but those friends were a few people who took five minutes to stop and talk to me. The truth is I was lonely. I remember times that I would sit at home and wish that I had somewhere to be or someone to hang out with, but the truth was, I knew I was alone. I was alone, depressed, and at one point suicidal. Life in my life was no life at all.
I came out of my depression and actually made some authentic and lasting relationships. Life in my life was actually starting to look like life. I was happy and fulfilled. Enter facebook. Slowly I became a recluse again. Walling myself into myself.
For me facebook creates a way for me to deceive myself into thinking that I was being relational when really I was pulling myself away from the real world. Sure I was looking at pictures of real people who would from time to time send me messages, but for the most part I was once again alone. Instead of forcing myself to get out and actually rub shoulders with others I tricked myself into thinking I was communicating with people. I have found myself sitting in front of my computer waiting for someone to talk to me. I was back in that place of thinking “why isn't anyone talking to me?” when the reality was that I wasn't talking to anyone else either. This thinking is the beginning of “social network depression.”
As I said in a recent post on facebook, “I can't stand all the changes” and its so true. I can't stand the changes that have occurred on facebook or in my personal life.
So these are the reasons I have chosen to unplug from the matrix. It is my prayer that if there is anyone else who is dealing with “social network depression” as I call it, that they would be encouraged to step out, choose the “blue pill,” unplug from the matrix, and communicate face to face with real human beings. Humans need actual human to human touch and face to face contact is the only way to do so.
Now is the time when I say... Play the video!!
Growing up I was always living my life through others or even better not living it at all. In high school I always considered myself as having friends, but those friends were a few people who took five minutes to stop and talk to me. The truth is I was lonely. I remember times that I would sit at home and wish that I had somewhere to be or someone to hang out with, but the truth was, I knew I was alone. I was alone, depressed, and at one point suicidal. Life in my life was no life at all.
I came out of my depression and actually made some authentic and lasting relationships. Life in my life was actually starting to look like life. I was happy and fulfilled. Enter facebook. Slowly I became a recluse again. Walling myself into myself.
For me facebook creates a way for me to deceive myself into thinking that I was being relational when really I was pulling myself away from the real world. Sure I was looking at pictures of real people who would from time to time send me messages, but for the most part I was once again alone. Instead of forcing myself to get out and actually rub shoulders with others I tricked myself into thinking I was communicating with people. I have found myself sitting in front of my computer waiting for someone to talk to me. I was back in that place of thinking “why isn't anyone talking to me?” when the reality was that I wasn't talking to anyone else either. This thinking is the beginning of “social network depression.”
As I said in a recent post on facebook, “I can't stand all the changes” and its so true. I can't stand the changes that have occurred on facebook or in my personal life.
So these are the reasons I have chosen to unplug from the matrix. It is my prayer that if there is anyone else who is dealing with “social network depression” as I call it, that they would be encouraged to step out, choose the “blue pill,” unplug from the matrix, and communicate face to face with real human beings. Humans need actual human to human touch and face to face contact is the only way to do so.
Now is the time when I say... Play the video!!
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