I’m sure I’m not the only person to notice this nor the only person to dedicate a blog post to it! There’s an addiction running through the country but for the life of me I cant understand why even though I’ve been afflicted myself. I mean there are people who seem to spend all their day on the thing and the only benefit I can see is to be really annoying to other people (for the last time I don’t want to be a vampire or a werewolf, and I sure as hell don’t have enough friends that I want to sell any of them)

Obviously I’m talking about Facebook. Personally I am beginning to get board of the whole thing, at first it was neat. A fun way to keep in touch with your friends. Then you start adding a couple of apps (maybe recommended by friends) then old school friends and other people you haven’t talked to in like 10 years start finding you and adding you. Or you look for them because your on a quest to have a friends list bigger than any one else on there. Still its not too bad, you only go on to check your inbox and such 20 times a day and most of those times its empty any way.

Then things take hold, you get a little less choosy about which applications you install. You spend more time checking your status page than you do your in box because you have that many invites to add other applications from your friends (I have one who keeps invting me to add the friends for sale app and thats at least 4 times a week we are talking). You update your status every 20 minutes so that everyone is up to date on what you are doing, or what your worried about and all of its a big ego trip because you think your friends list might be interested when infact they are doing exactly the same.

I’ve had a facebook profile since around June last year but I’m beginning to get sick of all the pointless applications that are on there, how many versions of am i hot or not do people need? You have to ask why do they wonder if some stranger on the internet thinks they are good looking. As for the friends who add you after no contact for so long, you begin to realise why you lost touch when all you get from them is the odd poke or the ever annoying request to let them bite you and turn them into a vampire/werewolf to feed there ego a little more.

You might say I’m cynical or jaded but I like to think I’m coming to terms with my addiction, isn’t the first step towards beating a problem admitting that the problem actually exists?