Why I Don’t Need to Check Facebook More Often

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Lately I started to feel guilty. No, I did not do anything wrong to my fellows. But I feel guilty of having wasted my time in Facebook. Did I? Yes.

How it happened? It was hard to notice it. At first you thought you were just dropping by the site and accepting new friends’ invitations to your Facebook network.

But then it would be difficult to take your eyes off the steady stream of updates posted by your friends and acquaintances. Whether they just bought a new dress, or had a fight with their cat, chances are you’d be flooded with much “non-essential” information and this could ruin your day.

So as you slowly become curious of what other people are doing, you may not notice you’ve been wasting an hour or two or more either reading someone’s trivial post/update or dropping a comment to a mundane post/update.

And then you feel guilty that you haven’t attended the truly most important task of the day because you were carried away in Facebook.

So there is a question whether I should check my Facebook account more often. Should I give in to the subtle urging of my mind dictating me to find out what other people are doing. Unless they are my employees, I don’t think I need to know every insignificant detail of their day’s activities.

Truth to tell, some people are just interested to brag about their life’s banalities, but they are not actually interested in a real, meaningful discussion about life or social issues, let alone about you or even about them.

It seems that people have abused their free time or stolen hours from their employers. They don’t realize that in every insignificant detail of their life that they reveal in public, someone’s precious time could be wasted.

And there is this annoying update on the state of their farm production and harvest. What a delusion. Why would they not just go out of their house and get into real, satisfying farming and if they are really concern on food shortage and worldwide hunger, then they should start to post farm tips and advices based on hands-on experience. Engaging in non-sense virtual farm is not only a big time-waster, it also does not inspire one to become part of the solution to global food shortage.

Staying away from Facebook can never be fatal to your life. If a friend or relative has a really important thing to tell you or ask from you, they would call you or email you. You lose nothing if you did not know the new color of your friend’s hair. Now if the sharing of life’s experience mainly borders laziness and banalities, if it is just a gesture of arrogance and self-glorification and ego-tripping, then you don’t need to know it through Facebook.

We really have to define what is important and what is not. If there is one thing that we can never gain back once it is lost, it is not money, it is not friendship, it is not furniture, it is not farm, it is not girlfriend/boyfriend – it is time.