A crazy place:Facebook

Friends were real. Communication was real.
Pictures were real, till Facebook came into our life.

Mark Zuckerburg’s brainchild redefined many things after it came into being. First and foremost, it gave the term “friends” altogether a different meaning. Why we add people as our so-called friends in Facebook? The simple answer is to increase the traffic in the friend list. More friend equals to more like in the pictures. There are three sets of people in Facebook in terms of adding friends- 

       a) Who add everybody (This is mostly done by boys and some of girls who want to show everyone that how beautiful they are and fetch likes).

       b)  Who add the people they know and give special consideration to the friend requests of the  beautiful girls and handsome boys.

       c) Who strictly add only the people they know (This is the safest one).                                              Remember how we used to add random people in our friend list because the people we know were not enough? Now we somehow take out time to unfriend those unknown (and sometime annoying) people, though some of them don’t even know that we exist.

Communication has merely taken the form of comments in the picture of our friends. We stay online most of the time, check the picture of our friends, look into their activities but we don’t take the further step of sending a ‘hi’ to start a communication.

Even few years ago, we hastily used to check who are online. We at least used to chat with some of the people with whom we want to talk. But now who has got that much time, right?

Leaving a comment in our friend's picture justifies your stand that ‘yeah I am still keeping touch’.

Earlier pictures were clicked for memory, now we click it for Facebook. Wherever we go or whatever we do, we click at least one picture for the sake of uploading it on Facebook. 

Facebook has become a place to showcase ones glamour quotient. Everybody is a model in Facebook. For the girls, shorter the cloth more the likes. For the boys, more the tags more the likes.

I am sure you all feel embarrassed by looking at the unedited (hence, ugly) pictures of yours in Facebook which you or your friend once uploaded. You really don’t want your new friends to see your old and ugly pictures which has one or two likes (or no like at all) so you hide it from your timeline.

Nowadays, having 200+ likes in a girl's picture(which are highly photoshopped) is quite common with comments like “You are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen”, “You have got a beautiful smile/eyes” etc a must.

And yeah, you will also come across some idiots whose picture caption reads “Friends, how am I looking?” Duh!

Facebook has also given rise to peculiar behavior among the people. For example, wishing their mother on Mother’s day in Facebook when their mother is not even on Facebook. Writing about their sad and emotional personal problems (this includes break-ups, getting back-stabbed by friends etc) when nobody is even bothered to read about it (This seriously needs to stop). Creating a Facebook page for no reason or lame reason and inviting all the people in their list to like the page. Then we have the famous Candy Crush requests. 

And, we also have people who ‘Works as student’ and ‘Works at model’(No that's not my grammatical mistake. They really work "at" model). Check your friend list, you will definitely find a handful of people who are working as a student or a model.

In the end, I would like to thank Facebook for reminding us the birthdays of our near and dear ones because we are too busy to remember them. Really Facebook you save friendships. And thank you again for bringing out my stalker side.