I'M GOING ROGUE

I’M GOING ROGUE

I have at last begun to realize the insincerity and personal disengagement the cyber world of social network sites has offered us.

As an individual who has lost the closeness of friends and well-known acquaintenances due to distance, age, the personal habit of smoking, health, pacifism and lack of a religious belief, I have become addicted to a popular social network.

Although other participants in my virtual world were chosen or accepted, I was aware that most were only acquaintenances or friends of other acquaintenances. I suppose I needed interaction from others and ignored that for which I was fully aware. But the emergence of a “friend report card” to evaluate your compatibility with a “friend” really brought my awareness to the forefront. The report card is promoted as a form of “entertainment” however in my opinion it seeks to bring forth the realization that cyber friends are not truly friends, they may as well be delusions.

I have spent many hours the past couple of years in my own delusion of friendship, liking, posting and reposting everyone elses quotes, philosophies, supporting for, etc., extending sympathies and expounding on my political beliefs but with this revelation I have re-entered the real world. I will spend my time enjoying things I want to do and possibly maintain the real friendships in my life. I may even begin sending an actual written letter to those who have not yet joined the Cyber World.