Thursday, February 23, 2012
Sacrificing Social Media
This past Wednesday, if you did not know was Ash Wednesday and the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. During Lent, many people give up something and I always go on Facebook that day to see how many people say that they are going to give up Facebook and all other social medias. I respect them if they are able to give them up and not go on them. Realistically though, why are people so addicted to them that they have to give them up? They should not be because when you think about it, why are we addicted to other peoples lives and what they are doing? It does not make sense but that is the way our society is; we love social media so much that we need to give it up for 40 days to try to prove to ourselves that we can mange without it even know most people cannot actually go through with the sacrifice they originally made. When you think back on the days before social media, we never knew what people were doing at the time. We had to call them and see if they were not busy and if they wanted to do something with us. We were perfectly fine back then with that kind of communication and we were fine when we were younger without the access to all the social media. Therefore, giving up social media should not be as hard as some make it out to be.
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I agree with your statements. I often think back to the days before social media and cellphones when we would actually have to call a house phone to see what our friends were doing. I believe that many people's addiction to social media has gotten way out of hand and the way its going will it keep getting worse?
ReplyDeleteI second it! People have become addicted to the point they don't realize what is going on around them. Instead of giving up meat (what the true purpose of Lent is to honor the sarcafices made to God as sacrifices were usually sheep and cows) people need to give up social media. It won't kill them, and it might make them better people for it.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree! I also went on Facebook that day and noticed that it was the same usual people who always give up Facebook for lent. It is ridiculous what our society has come to in the fact that we find it so hard to live without Facebook for 40 days and actually have to post a status telling people that they are giving it up, just so that their friends won't 'worry'! If we are that addicted to Facebook now, who knows what people will be giving up for Lent in the future.
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