For a long time I did
not want to get a Facebook account. I was not, and still not for the most part,
interested in wasting my time on the computer. And that was the stereotype of
social media. Every post might have had a meaning to the person posting it at
the time. But after the initial post it was meaningless, to both the audience
and the original person who posted it. The original post would become
pointless, and a waste of time. In the end the only reason I got a Facebook
account in the first place is because I wanted to play some of the games and
take a couple pointless quizzes for fun. In the early days of my Facebook
account I was paranoid about privacy and not wanting something stupid to get
out on the internet. The whole what gets on the internet never gets off the
internet thing bugged me a bit I think.
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I did not want my picture put on Facebook at
first. Mostly because I was not a fan of strangers knowing everything about me
from my profile and what is posted, and I would certainly not like them knowing
what I look like on top of that. After having Facebook for maybe a week or two I
realized that at any point any of my friends or family could snap and post a
picture of me, and that it was a silly thought thinking I could control that
with any certainty. Today I have many pictures of myself and others on my
Facebook account and they have pictures of me and it doesn’t really bug me. In the
three to four years that I have had Facebook, I did not post much at all
anyway. I guess you could say that doubt and fear of pointlessness was my
stereotype of Social Media.
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