the facebook "phenomenon"...

after several months (or maybe more than a year) of being an active facebook account holder, i have come and gone from my initial... hmmmm... emotion from opening said account.

first, the ENDLESS farmville, mafia and all those crappy game invitations. this is something that facebook does with all its intent: it tries to hook you to be online ALL the time. ALL the fucking time. time and time again I have read about cold numerical statistics that let the cat out of the bag: facebook addiction costs, at least in Mexico, 8 weekly (i don't remember exactly) hours of lost time.

i've made the same mistake several times: i THINK i will be more connected, more networked, more in touch. yeah right. you just WASTE time. every fucking time I log on, I just waste time. there is no benefit for me. honest. yeah, I do log off and feel much more informed and connected, but at what cost?

i have done it too: post the most irrelevant status updates... and what for? who is out there reading? who CARES? facebook is just a show-off game. a game where you strive to win the last word. the one who has the last comment wins... if the comment was witty. or loses, if he or she kills the momentum or the joke or the thread.

i was under the impression that facebook would allow me to network, find clients, to distribute the notion that i am offering my services... but so far, nothing.

i have added and friended several other businesses like mine and i have tried to be polite and share them too, but i don't feel i am treated with the same level of politeness, so shove it.

i even cancelled my account for a few weeks and i am itching to do it once again. i have a lot to do with my real life (and ironically, the things i want to do will also ocurr on a digital level), but i honestly should lay off facebook for a while... and make that a long while.

i'm seriously thinking about it... which brings me to another subject: if i'm so annoyed with facebook, why the fuck do i have to THINK about it? why don't i just log off and that's that?

fucking social networks....