The relevance of Facebook to your life

Our social media accounts serve as one of the best ways to communicate by sharing or exchanging our thoughts not only with our family, friends and colleagues, but also with the world, thanks to the Internet. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook give us updates on what is happening in our world through news and current affairs. They can give us information about food, health and medicine, science and technology, history, geography, etc. We also get first-hand information from people we admire: movie actors and actresses, sports icons, singers, authors, and many others. Let’s talk more about Facebook though – this is where we do most of the intercom.

At least 80% of the people I know (myself included) are on Facebook. We check our news feeds almost from time to time, depending on our situation, needs, or free time. Based on my personal experience, observation and reactions of other people, many times the things we see are not as pleasant or entertaining. They are usually annoying and can make us unhappy. There are a huge number of posts that might bother us, but let’s focus on what we witness day after day.

Here are examples of what we commonly see on our news feeds:

• Selfies, common selfies that flood your screen

• New personal things like bags, shoes, smartphones, wristwatches, etc.

• Someone has bought a new car or is traveling anywhere they want to.

• Foods that people eat in a restaurant that are expensive or cheap

• People who just post everything about their children’s achievements in school, sports, music, and the arts

• Pictures that show someone’s muscles or physical abilities

• List of an individual’s exercise routines, the foods he eats (diet)

• A video or photo of someone at the gym, particularly a selfie in the mirror.

• A video of someone singing, dancing, or playing any musical instrument.

• People pretending to be harsh when commenting on harsh and unkind words in a public post.

• People who represent godly character by posting Bible verses when in reality they are not what they show them to be.

• Publications that rant about the government and politics or about the anger and anger of a person with something or someone.

• People who simply share and post everything they see on their home page

Some of the examples given are intended to provide entertainment or show our friends and family (whom we don’t see every day) what happens in our daily lives. However, they tend to show narcissism, pride, audacity, claim, negativity towards things, and egocentrism. The question is, how and why do we judge people based on what they see in their posts? Some answers are obvious, some are not.

1. Studies reveal that too many selfies or self-portraits are directly related to narcissism. Why would you take hundreds of photos of yourself and post them on social media if they only show your face? What else would you like people to see? It’s all your face! What’s so special about it? All right, you’re pretty, you’re handsome, so what?

2. Pride It is normal, but our Facebook friends who are our audience also misunderstand it. Just be careful with your words and your typical subject.

3. Audacity it is what people have when they are themselves. It is a product of happiness, confidence, and satisfaction with someone’s life or situation, no matter how easy or difficult.

4. We say that someone is pretending if we know them personally, we know how they treat other people, or what they have in life in terms of material things that they can buy or pay for.

5. What we say about negativity? Of course, we are only human beings, we are never perfect. Who does not get angry, irritated, annoyed or irritated? Just something that has no life. But don’t make your social media account your live update on your emotional or physical illness. Although it might sometimes help you gain sympathy (if that’s what you really need) from your friends and family, it still doesn’t mean that you can endlessly post your negativity in any situation. Also, if you really think the government will notice and change its regulation, think again.

6. Do not be egocentric. If you think that everything you post or share will help everyone, you are wrong. You will only flood their news feeds. You don’t have to share everything you think is informative or interesting all the time. Just hit the like or comment button on that public post, your friends will see them too.

How do you feel when you receive likes or positive comments?

It’s a great feeling that your friends and family “like” and leave a “comment” on your posts. You feel accepted, appreciated, valued, recognized, and even respected. Now, look up the antonyms for these words as I ask you what happens if your post (which you consider special) is ignored. In this modern world we live in, social media has become an online representation of ourselves.

Why do we get angry?

We assume that the examples given are annoying and may make us jealous or skeptical. In my previous article, “Is the criticism good?” I have mentioned the reasons why we judge or criticize people.

We have our own reasons for posting such things. In fact, if we think back to the day when we didn’t have anything that worked with technology or the Internet, it seems we did the same. We talk to our friends about any topic. We write letters to our loved ones. We share everything that happened to us, including, of course, the things we are proud of. We take pictures, print them, and show them to our family and friends. You don’t want to look bad in your photo, right? Nothing has changed so much; if there is, it would be in how we claim our freedom of expression, which is abused and we do not care about our virtual community, which is directly connected to reality. The main difference here is that what we show our loved ones can also be seen by other people anywhere in the world, depending on the privacy settings of your post. Think about it, whether on Facebook or not, not all the people you consider friends are really your friends. What else is there if it’s just your friends online? They don’t know you well, so they would misunderstand you most of the time. What makes those posts (which are not intended to offend others) annoying is that we, who are just someone’s virtual friend, see things that should only be shown to people who know them personally.

Here is a quote from Francis Collins: “God gave us free will, and we can choose to exercise it in a way that ends up hurting other people.” We were given free will from the day we were born. Let’s choose the best option and live a happy life. Sometimes we just need to consider the result of our actions. We just have to think carefully about how our actions can affect other people and especially our “online community”.