No More Facebook...What Now?

You know the feeling when the power goes out and you feel lost without your computer? That's the feeling I imagine thousands of people having if all of a sudden Facebook disappeared. Lost with spare time suddenly at their fingertips wondering
"Hmm what to do with myself?” 

Facebook currently the most popular social website is used for lots of different things by millions of different people. Advertise their business, find long lost families, organize events, share information and photos, find contacts and play games. Well that's just half of it really, and I'm sure those people would recover and find other ways as they have done before.

Nowadays most People pretty much live on their phones, myself included except for when it's charging and then it's off to the computer. Technology changes the way we live slightly each day and will continue to do so. "Back in the day peeps had to walk up stairs, now there's elevators and escalators. If you wanted to see your friend you would organize a catch up visit, now it's usually a text, email or message via your favourite


media site; which is where Facebook comes in. The days of hanging out with your friends are gone and now it's hanging out on their timeline.

Most Facebook users are guilty  (myself included)  of having some form of mild Facebook addiction. I'm not talking hand shaking, Facebook A.A, or selling your grandma for an internet connection. But like it or not, if you use Facebook there's obvio
usly something you like that keeps you going back.  Whether it's status updates, stalking other peoples photos, spending hours on your favourite bands or business page, chatting with family or spamming your friends news feeds with 'Duck Faced Selfies' three times a day.

I'm happy to say I'm not that far gone where I itch or twitch to log on and see what's going on in the online world, but of course I would be lying if I said there haven’t been exceptions where I have something super funny I want to share with my friends or followers straight away. The kids doing something so funny I'm crying on the floor, or finally getting that forbidden snap shot of your husband in his cute duck flannies the kids bought him for Father's Day. Those kinds of things (being biased of course) I class as an exception, they are too good to not share and aren't the same boring "just having a cup of tea..." statuses.  Seriously, I don’t understand those who posts those and similar, you’re having a cup
 of tea, and???

So let's break it down...what would people do if Facebook all of a sudden was no more? Capeesh? Over? Shut down?

1.       Time Wasters – Some people generally would feel a bit lost, and would all of a sudden have all this extra time on their hands. They would no doubt try and find something to fill the gap and time with. Facebook anonymous would need to be formed for those who check it every 28 minutes and help them get back into normal living. “Facebook, what did we do before Facebook?” My children are the same if I take their computer or hand held games, they don’t know what to do with themselves.

My Cat molly has a love hate relationship with
Facebook and my computer

2.       Friend Collectors – Those 896 friends you collected aren’t actually your friends! Yes you might know them or went to some way back event with them, but no you do not have that many real, true and honest friends! (Don’t worry, neither do I) All of a sudden people would need to actually leave the house and go and socialize with their friends instead of just liking their comments.

3.       SElfie Spammers – Who am I g
oing to Selfie spam now?? People that posts Selfies every half an hour of the same thing (their face, different angle, different location) drive me batty! Are they completely vein, seeking attention or simply have no idea? One or two, sure why not…But when you go through your/someone’s photos and 90% of them are of themselves, leaning into the camera, half the time pulling some quack duck or kiss face, well then its classed as Selfie Spam!

4.       Blame Shifters – Fair enough everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but Facebook cops the blame for a lot of things, which let’s be honest…. A website can’t do. Divorces and infidelity for example…Facebook didn’t make your husband or wife leave you, nor did it make them go into the arms of someone else. They may have used social sites to make it easier, but no one but themselves is accountable for their actions. People might actually spend time working on their relationship rather than just blaming it on other things and people when it goes south.

             Cyber Bullying is unfortunately constantly on social sites such as Facebook, but again it is the people who are sitting behind the computer, not the website itself. 

 

5.       Gossip Queens, Instigators and Pot Stirrers would have no one to spread stories about and entertain with. They might even slowly over time start concentrating on their own lives and business instead of making everyone else’s their topic of conversation each day. I personally think those who spend all their time talking about everyone else, much have a fairly boring life or have nothing better to do. On Facebook especially though, the gossip queens are kept fueled with things to talk about as to many air their dirty laundry for all to see.

6.       Memes would have a major downfall! Some memes are worth seeing and occasionally sharing, but it seems now 90% of my Facebook feed is memes and commonly the same image but with different words or slogans.

7.       Hackers would have one less place to try and steal your personal information and photos from. Social media sites have made it even easier for hackers, especially with people who aren’t very internet savvy or have the “It won’t happen to me” attitude and are too lazy to be cautious.

8.       The Ex Friend or Ex Partner Stalkers – The all too common “I don’t care or see what you are doing although secretly I am always looking at your page and going through your photo’s” stalkers! Also known for constantly activating n de-activating your account to be sneaky and pretend they either don’t have Facebook anymore or aren’t on your friends list or fan page. I personally have a couple of these myself, annoying and sly.

The friends in General who constantly deactivate and re-activate their accounts… make up your mind already!

9.     Most things have good and bad points, things that annoy some, or as they say two sides to every story. So here are just a few Good Points of Facebook – If Facebook suddenly shut down, along with the above points, there would also be a lot of good things that would disappear with it.

-Keeping in contact with long distant family.

-Easy sharing of photos and videos to friends and family.

-Finding people who you have long lost touch with would be more difficult.

-Free advertising site for pages, businesses, communities and others who use it.

-Easy access for organizing functions such as reunions, finding out information such as places, jobs etc. Makes it easier for people to get in contact and be more aware of organizations such as rescue centres.

-Any of course, things people personally enjoy and use Facebook for.

The above is all obviously based on my own opinion and some of others through my own questions to others.

Would it bother you if Facebook suddenly shut down?

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Why I Think God Would Be A Man

I personally am not a believer in God, Jesus or anything religious. No offence to anyone that is, but I simply don’t believe in what I cannot see. I’m not even sure if I believe in Dinosaurs as I haven’t seen one in real life. Yes there are bones, yes there are things on Television, but who believes half the stuff that is shown on TV nowadays? But I do believe that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, whatever helps them have the strength to get through life’s rollercoaster ride. Each to their own choices.

If I was to be inclined to believe in God, this is why I believe he would definitely be a man!

Women are the ones who have babies. Yes this is a life changing experience, something you cannot imagine unless you have been through it. Something that unfortunately a lot of families don’t get to go through due to difficulties. But… Why are we the ones who have to have babies? Couldn’t we have shared this duty? Take turns or something? We go through 40 weeks of uncomfortable transformation, and then we have to push this baby out or have it cut out. Yes we get a beautiful baby at the end, but so does he with only a touch of the effort. Then there is the after baby recovery. The walking around like we have sticks up our bums, not being able to sit down properly, the sore boobs, and don’t forget the funky lady days that have been waiting for you for the past 40 weeks!

The peeing issue. Why is it, men are fitted with ‘body parts’ for easy peeing? When out in public men would pee anywhere regardless of what they were equipped with, so why not give it to the lady so we can pee in the bushes easy to. Oh no, give us something that we have to drop our knickers, hoist our skirts up, and get grass tickling our bums. But I mean, oh ladies don’t do that anyways.

 

Lady Days. Every month are you for real? He couldn’t have designed it any better than this? It’s not only that we are out of commission but the pain! Some women have major nasty pains each time of the month. Couldn’t he have made a deal. We have the babies, men have the Lady Days? I mean it is “God” we are talking about; if he is real then surely he could have sorted something a little more even out.

Men and Women are complete opposites. If God was a woman, men would be more inclined to leave the toilet seat down, like to go shopping, help with the washing, sewing, cooking and ironing, would be able to multi-task, wouldn’t fart in public, there wouldn’t be as many gross bugs around, and everything would be completely different. Of course there are some men that are already like the above, but I’m talking about if God was a woman, then 99% of men would be like this.

If God was a woman, then Men would be telepathic. All those little hints or should I say repeated hints, wouldn’t be necessary. He would know we want flowers next Tuesday for our anniversary, and that he needs to get in and fix that fence. He would know that she has had enough for one day and its best he steers clear, or that she really would love company and now’s the time to make his move. There would be no communication problems, none of this “Men are from Mars and Women from Venus”; we would all be from Vemars.

And Last but not least, I think if God was a woman, then all food would be healthy. Women have such crazy body issues; I can’t imagine a female God creating any foods that would make them fat. I know it’s not technically God that makes for example MacDonald’s, but somewhere along the times, that person was given the knowledge to invent that. A woman God would have invented everything that is made to be fat free and healthy but tasting like normal MacDonald’s. There are health conscience men of course, but men don’t seem to have the body issues that women do.

 

Thoughts?