You are obsessed with Facebook. The simple and attractive layout, the option of sharing almost everything in your clogged brain and the ability to make your stuff reach out to the maximum has made it almost impossible for you to leave it untouched. I remember one of friends "saying Facebook is like my refrigerator. Though there is nothing inside, I peep into it every half an hour."
Suppose you got up one day, opened the browser, typed in the URL and what you got is a 404 error page showing – “webpage not found”. What would be your first reaction? Would you fall off the chair or would you be pleased that you no longer need to face the blue hyped facebook login page. The reaction would surely differ from person to person depending upon the way they make use of the social network, here is how I think it would affect our daily lives. A facebook less day initiative : Here it is |
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Boredom: This one is for amateurs who use facebook just to interact with friends and update their status. Absence of Facebook, would probably not put them in a state of depression. In my opinion, the only thing that would disappoint these users is that they would lose an account of everything that he/she had shared with friends. It’s almost obvious that they would soon find an alternative to it, but will these people ever be able to forget the pleasant time spent on Facebook.
No “Like” Button: Among the many virtual hand gesture, the thumb up button is the most addictive one, a kind of can die for type. The popularity of post, a page, a picture or a video is aggregated on the basis of the number of likes they receive. And based upon my observations, users keep no strings pulled to get the maximum number of thumbs up. My own friends tag people, share it repeatedly and some even beg their friends for it. In the absence of this most preferred gesture, I just hope they don’t cut off their own thumbs.
Affect on advertisement: With the end of Facebook, the advertisers though would surely get another platform to expand their business, they might find hard time to mingle with the new environment and if I am right, they would soon get frustrated and if I am wrong, I would make a terrible entrepreneur .
Back to Real world: To some, I may seem crazy, but I could think of only one way it might prove to be a good thing – Welcome back everyone to the real world. Facebook acts as a virtual world for each of those addicted ones who spend more than half of their precious time managing their relationships and their status online. Once the virtual world vanishes, I just hope that people start interacting and living the way they used to do several years ago. This may bind the relationships.
Though Mark seems to have no intention of bringing this wonderful social network to an end anytime soon or in the near future, I spent much of my time thinking about the after effects of this step. Make the most of Facebook now and hope that it stays there forever.
