Below is a poem I wrote in 2009 about Facebook addiction. There are several Facebook references to decode. Facebook has evolved so much since this, a new one is in the making:
What's on your mind today?
What kind of person are you?
These are very challenging words
Even for other people you may know.
How long will you pet society?
Or feed on the lives of others?
Like a vampire or like the maffia;
Waging wars without a real cause?
Your brain must not be very big after all
to miss the new events that seek to alter
your privacy settings.
This is not a quiz but somehow you fail to notice the mounting
requests -of unthinkable kinds- that are
thrown at you daily.
Or maybe you like poking away at the wall
of indifference and self-indulgence?
I wish that you could see that this is not
affecting only you, or some of your friends
or all of your friends, or friends of your friends
but your entire social network!
I do not think I need to further sketch a
portrait of what your life will be like if
you refuse to block and delete this way of
thinking...this way of being...
Or maybe within the last 10 minutes you have
been too busy uploading pictures from the
past and present to notice that you are
100% facebook addicted!
For more on social media addiction read PR Daily's recent article, Social Media Addict and Social Media Daily.
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