Facebook Suicide

As someone who has a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and used to have a Myspace I would say that, sadly, I wouldn’t be able to commit Facebook suicide. Although I realize how pathetic this sounds I truly enjoy “being connected” this way via internet, and to see what people are doing through out the day, and posting what I am doing. People are given the ability to post what they want, and obviously want people to read their posts, or they wouldn’t post the information. If I were to commit Facebook suicide I would lose knowing this information, and feel a little less connected to my friends, and what they were going through. But, I would win the extra time that I lose spending on Facebook to do other things. Whether I am at home on my computer, or simply on my cell phone, I recognize that I spend too much time on these sites, but for me it becomes a daily routine that I want to see what my friends are doing, which I guess is what I use as “my excuse”. It is simple, quick, and doesn’t take as much energy as calling someone. Although there is a negative side to this, which is you lose the “realness” of communicating with someone face to face, which is why King describes these sites as not “adding up to community”. On the other side of the spectrum, people may see the positive side through the efficiency aspect of it. Although people do commit Facebook suicide, I believe that in this day in age with the amount of ever growing communication sites such as Facebook and blogging, people will eventually reactive their accounts that have committed suicide, it is just a matter of time.