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Part 2: Is facebook destroying life in your 20s?
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The increase in this latest Facebook fad has been over the past decade. Facebook was first introduced to college students. It was designed for students to meet other students on their campus. It has now turned into one big party scene. Students are seeing everyday these pictures….or what I like to call “fallacies of fun.” Students drinking, partying and taking seemingly “funny” pictures of their so–called friend dressed as little bo peep with beer cans covering their body. You would think 4 years of that every night would be enough….but it no longer is.
When was the last time you saw a University encourage “Relationships?” I am not talking about a one night stand although…that is all colleges seem to be promoting. There are no programs on how to maintain a relationship—two people in love---nope, only programs on STDS, a slideshow of a banana and how to be the man on campus. Young women, without there knowledge are being taught that its okay to have so many one night relationships—as long as you use protection! And now, what’s worse is that these same women are coming out of college, still binge drinking at the bars, still picking up the random men and wanting these “Independent” lifestyles.
Hey, I am all for the Independent, strong woman—don’t get me wrong---but I am sick of seeing women think that drinking in bars and acting stupid until they are 30 is okay, because it is not. Whatever happened to the mature dinner date?
Again, I blame Facebook. Even when you graduate college…you can’t escape it. Mature 23 year olds are still partying harder than ever. “Hard week at work? Let’s blow off some steam by drinking…” has become the new norm. Whatever happened to dinner and movie to relax?
What’s the main point: I blame Facebook. (Well putting toxic relationships, the excessive drinking, lazy behaviors at work, and one night stands aside) We as a society are all logging onto Facebook and comparing our lives to others. It is not healthy. We make ourselves feel guilty because on a Friday night, we might just want to stay in but then we log onto Facebook only to see “Emily’s” status update saying out at the bars—and that’s where we think we should be. Or we are looking at underclassmen’s photos just wishing that we could be back there with them…partying it up. We begin to lose track of our own lives, and what it is that we want to be doing. We are seemingly giving up the right to just think for ourselves. We are constantly afraid that we should be somewhere else, with someone else, doing something else. You might have entered college, that shy girl who had dreams of getting a stellar job, moving back home to save money and finding that one guy…..but you lost yourself somewhere in the Facebook popularity race. Now you are constantly going out, drinking (because that’s what you think guys like) with friends who are just constantly pressuring you to be someone who you NEVER were. We are just getting lost in the world that Facebook wants us to believe we should be living in…and it’s destroying friendships, potential relationships and our pure sanity.
