No, that’s not a typo. Fecebook is what I have been affectionately calling FB for some time now.
feces
[fe´sēz] (L.)body waste discharged from the intestine;
The feces are formed in the colon and pass down into the …
(https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/)
I think you get the idea.
That was the day, back in 2003 when I was working for the movie theatre. What a glorious time that was– popping popcorn, selling soda and candy to screaming kids. It was then, in the manager’s office, that I heard my co-workers talking about Fecebook.
“You won’t be able to sign off this thing! It’s so awesome, everyone’s there!”
“It can’t be that great…”
I thought to myself and as soon as I got home, I hopped on my computer and joined Fecebook. (To all you youngins out there, most cell phones didn’t have the ability to access websites back then, they were used primarily to make phone calls…Weird, right?)
At the time, I was attending a community college, but it didn’t matter. By that time, everyone was able to access it. Originally, only those attending college could sign up and it needed to be done with their college credentials. Given this fact–not everyone was there yet, but in the next 10 years or so, everything would change
Fast forward [about 10 years], I am sitting with my father in his living room. He says to me [in his heavy Italian/Brooklyn accent],
“What do you know about this FB thing?”
My 60 year old father wants to know about Fecebook, interesting. Long story short, I signed him up and the rest is history.
EVERYONE is on Fecebook now…which leads me to my point. Fecebook is not the only social media application that people use, but a lot of people [especially in my age group] spend a lot of time on there.
I’ve been receiving these sexually inappropriate ads on my feed.
While some people may like these sorts of products, I find it offensive. It’s fine that other people like it, but if I don’t want to see it, I shouldn’t have to….should I?
A lot of you are throwing your hands up in the air saying “Just block them!”
I did. More times than I can count. Apparently, there is a corporation that owns hundreds of these companies, so it doesn’t matter how many times I block them. Every few posts, I see another one of these ads.
This is an indication of a bigger issue here. If it bothers me that much, I could just stop using Fecebook, right?
….Maybe.
I use Fecebook to communicate with my friends and see posts from groups that I like. I also use it to keep up-to-date on my friends and family’s lives.
Let me repeat that — I also use it to keep up-to-date on my friends and family’s lives.
What’s wrong with this sentence? I’m not the only one who does this. In addition to wasting probably more than an hour on this thing everyday, I’m using it to keep up-to-date on the lives of the people I love and care about.
Whatever happened to a phone call? Or a good old ::gasp:: face to face conversation? Dun dun dun!!!!
On a side note– people are also living their lives through the lens of a cell phone so that other people can… live vicariously through them? Or because they want to show the world how cool they are?
Or because they know that the only way their friends and family will know anything about their lives is if they post it on social media. Sad.
I digress. So to stop these disgusting ads on Fecebook, I changed my age to 3 so they couldn’t show me these ads anymore. I tried to change it to 0, but they wouldn’t let me.
So now, guess what? Unless I upload a picture of my driver’s license so they can confirm that I’m not some disgruntled 3 year old, my account is suspended…and you know what? Good riddance.
Regardless of the fact that this has clearly become an addiction, I’ve come to the conclusion that just like kicking any addiction– like drugs, alcohol or nicotine, this is going to benefit me in the long run. It will:
- Force me to communicate more directly with friends and family, thereby improving my interpersonal relationships
- Save me time that I was spending on social media, allowing me to do more with my time
- Reduce my overall phone time, which is better for my eyes and for my mind…not to mention my neck
- Allow me to be more present, speaks for itself
- Stop seeing disgusting ads…yeah, stop seeing disgusting ads, WTH Fecebook?
Anyway, I challenge all of you to do the same–and not just with Fecebook, with ALL of your social media…but let’s start small. Let’s start with Fecebook. Put your phone down and give a friend a call, say hello to your neighbor–do some intermittent fasting with your social media (meaning spend x amount of hours off of it, COMPLETELY).
And Bbdeebbdeebbdeeb that’s it folks! I’ve never been good at goodbye’s, but that’s my spiel right there. See ya Fecebook!
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