Draft

have started to notice over the last couple of weeks that people are completely obsessed with Facebook. I mean, if I look around a lecture hall filled with 400 something students I can guarantee that at least half of them are on Facebook either on a lap top or a cell phone. In the middle of class!!!! I mean I can understand checking it every once in a while, but certainly not in the middle of class. I usually try to pay attention in Chemistry. I just feel like society is now more concerned with the brand new bumper sticker our best friend sent us on Facebook than our actual education which is kind of disturbing. Think about it.

You are walking around this massive campus which boasts over 50,00 students and by chance you happen to run into a friend you haven’t seen in a while or an ex roommate. You stop and chat, ask the usual questions, “How are classes? Do you like the new apartment?” and then instead of saying call me or text me and we can do dinner soon it’s “Facebook me we should totally get together soon.” Instead of sending out invitations to parties or doing phone tag to get people together we just send them an invite over Facebook. And while I can concede that it has made keeping in touch with people easier, especially since we all went away to college, I feel like we have lost the personal touches that society once held so dear.

I remember when I would have to spend hours, hand writing thank you notes for present and things like that. Now all I have to do is go on Facebook and send something through my inbox. Birthdays are another thing. Facebook automatically tells me when one of my friend’s birthday is coming up. To me if you consider this person a friend you should know simple things like his or her birthday with out having a website send you a reminder. Communication has all been seriously degraded. We all have at least one of those friends that we can talk to for hours on line, but as soon as we meet them in person, we freeze up. We don’t know how to talk to them face to face. It’s like the only way we know how to having a working relationship with this person is behind a computer screen.

At this point, Facebook has started to seep into every portion of our lives. It seems to be a necessity for us to function as individuals in society.