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wishing facebook was gone forever
i've had the mental note to clean out my facebook friends for a while now, but i, for some reason, haven't gotten around to it. this could be chalked up to me avoiding the platform like the plague, because whenever i'm lured into scrolling through the feed, i'm always bound to find something upsetting sooner or later.
i grow more disillusioned by the concept of a "facebook friend." we were in the middle of forming groups one time during online class, and as it were, none of us knew each other (which made the professor saying "lol you can do it malaki na kayo" all the more irritating). one student said that the first five people who sent him a friend request on facebook could be his groupmates, and so in my desperation i clicked the request button on his profile. he didn't accept me into the group at the end (no worries, i already had a group by then), but he accepted my friend request anyway? now i'm privy to what he shares, and seeing this guy listed as a "friend" is extremely weird to me since i don't know this person to begin with. on top of this i had to accept the friend request of my actual groupmate, who i also don't know, and against my will i get to see what she shares and what she is tagged in.
i just don't see the point of this friending system if i have to engage with people i don't know, and never will know that well. i hate the insincerity of it all, the obligation to keep that online connection or else the other party might take it personally (if they ever bother to check, that is). if it were completely up to me i'd go and unfriend some of the people i used to go to church with, but i don't out of fear of a religious leader hitting up my inbox and asking me why. i know i could always snooze the posts of users i don't want to see, but facebook has become so inefficient and complicated it actually feels taxing to do so. i've also had the experience of snoozing a person and them still showing up on my feed, which was maddening.
seeing as the platform isn't something i can escape easily since it's so widely used, i now wish that a second outage would occur so institutions will be forced to move their activity somewhere else. and hopefully, that one lasts indefinitely, because i'm not sure that any form of comprehensively presenting the terrible things facebook does will be enough to make other people drop the site entirely.
i grow more disillusioned by the concept of a "facebook friend." we were in the middle of forming groups one time during online class, and as it were, none of us knew each other (which made the professor saying "lol you can do it malaki na kayo" all the more irritating). one student said that the first five people who sent him a friend request on facebook could be his groupmates, and so in my desperation i clicked the request button on his profile. he didn't accept me into the group at the end (no worries, i already had a group by then), but he accepted my friend request anyway? now i'm privy to what he shares, and seeing this guy listed as a "friend" is extremely weird to me since i don't know this person to begin with. on top of this i had to accept the friend request of my actual groupmate, who i also don't know, and against my will i get to see what she shares and what she is tagged in.
i just don't see the point of this friending system if i have to engage with people i don't know, and never will know that well. i hate the insincerity of it all, the obligation to keep that online connection or else the other party might take it personally (if they ever bother to check, that is). if it were completely up to me i'd go and unfriend some of the people i used to go to church with, but i don't out of fear of a religious leader hitting up my inbox and asking me why. i know i could always snooze the posts of users i don't want to see, but facebook has become so inefficient and complicated it actually feels taxing to do so. i've also had the experience of snoozing a person and them still showing up on my feed, which was maddening.
seeing as the platform isn't something i can escape easily since it's so widely used, i now wish that a second outage would occur so institutions will be forced to move their activity somewhere else. and hopefully, that one lasts indefinitely, because i'm not sure that any form of comprehensively presenting the terrible things facebook does will be enough to make other people drop the site entirely.