Facebook Says

Facebook says I am amazing and I have a ranking to prove it. Facebook is great! Thank you, Facebook.

But, despite its greatness, Facebook is superfast. Our lives are superfast. Because we now can have two existences. No wonder religion is failing. We have to take care of our real life existence and our beyond existence in real time! We have to take care of our online existence, our wandering spirit on the web, our avatar.

Facebook is the new oracle.

In realtime, one has real life relationships to manage and virtual online ones as well. But aren't they all real in the end? It's all real people establishing real connections between each other. Recently I read a tweet that said "together is the new alone" from someone whith who I had shared a little shell which name means "solitary togetherness". The concepts of "together" and "alone" keep coming to our minds in pairs, as if they were unseparable (what a lovely oxymoron!). And they are. And we feel alone, even (sometimes, specially) when together. No wonder! Among so many people, so many connections, so many relationships... We are not prepared biologically to deal with it. We fail to respond as we would like to all the demands and needs of the many people we love. Or would love to love... And we get sad facing the so many good opportunities of following beautiful people we know we will probably never even meet live or see again. Because, online or not, we know they are real.

On its limit, life can become mere consumption. And this applies to everything: work, love, tax paying... We have the whole world in front of us and accessible. One click and you are part of another amazing project, another amazing life. One click and you are even more tangled in this endless riddle of network building. And the more tangled you are the faster you go. And the faster you go the easiest you slip into the meshes of frustration. One click and you add a new interest to your life. One click and you erase someone from it forever. Just like you do in real life. But easiest, faster and in double!

Facebook says I am amazing and I have a ranking to prove it. Facebook says I am measurable through statistics. Facebook says to add friends, advise friends to others, even buy friends! Facebook makes my life good. Facebook makes the whole world accessible while I am totally alone, sitting with my laptop, writing some work report or a post on my blog. Facebook says I am dear to others. Facebook says a lot. (Facebook is a woman!) Facebook should shut the fuck up sometimes! Facebook would never say I am stupid or a bitch or a looser. Facebook is good to me. I should worship Facebook and recommend it to others. Facebook is a religion, is a pill, is a drug. Facebook makes me feel good. Facebook is something I sometimes want to get rid off. Facebook is addicting. Facebook makes me jealous. Facebook makes me wonder. Facebook is together. Facebook is alone. Facebook is an escape like any other. Facebook is an opportunity like any other. Facebook is like going for a coffee downstairs. Facebook helps you think. Facebook is a period. Facebook is a tool. Facebook is just part of life.

And I have a new friend, who I am finally meeting after a long time sharing loneliness together on Facebook.

Thank you, Facebook.