So I haven’t updated my blog for a while, and for the few of you who read this, My Apologies.
I haven’t been on for various reasons and actually one of which is my topic today. The Weapon of Mass destruction I am referring to is none other then facebook.
While there is a valid point to be made as to the value of facebook and its social properties, I find that more and more there are many who just sit on there day after day to maintain certain applications. For example you have My Zoo, My farm, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Pirates and even a restaurant you can manage. Now I have fallen into some if not all of the traps listed to eat up my time. Recently, I had a thought and was slightly saddened. I see many of my friends make it a point to logon daily to ensure that their farm has been harvested, their money deposited in Mafia or Pirates at a minimum. While this is good it made me think of how many have done and do that in their real world lives.
How many of us make sure that certain things are taken care of daily? How many of us deposit our money before it’s lost to over spending? How many of us make sure that the fruits of our labors are harvested? How much time do we spend making sure our families and loved ones are taken care of and our lives free from clutter?
While some would say they do that daily, my question to them is really? Do we make it a priority to listen to others, to tend to their needs? I think if society took care of themselves, like we take care of our Farms, our Mafia and our Pirates on facebook daily the world would be a better place for all of us.
Unfortunately people don’t pay as much attention on living in this world as they do in their internet based applications. If we all focused on what we need to do like we focus on the applications we could accomplish even more in our lives.
I am not trying to get on a soapbox and I do waste a good amount of time on facebook and its apps. I hope to change that and only go on when I am alone and have absolutely NOTHING to do. Who knows?, maybe I’ll be the only one who tries this but hopefully I will be happier for it and possibly these who I am around will be happier for it as well.
(The Weapon of Mass Destruction is meant to imply that facebook is destroying our time and in person interaction with one another)
