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F -‘FACEBOOK’
In today’s world, not having Facebook is of the same kind to falling
sick. Surely something must be wrong with you if you have no social
account. How will people follow your achievements, your relationships
or your weight gain or stalk?
If something happens and you don’t put it on Facebook, did it ever
happen? Facebook is the end-all and be-all of socializing; that having
no social network is the same as having no friends.
But what our connected world has not taken into account are the
several ways in which Facebook can harm our lives, instead of
enhancing them. Sure, you can reconnect with lost friends and family,
find job opportunities and keep a digital log of your life. But more
commonly Facebook has become a dark hole — a place where
jealousy and competition breed, where self-worth is defined by a
catalogue of carefully tagged pictures and an overall productivity
time-suck.
As if you haven’t punished yourself enough for that unwanted weight
gain, Facebook makes it worst. Looking at others’ online albums left
them wishing for the same body or weight as the person pictured —
creating more negative feelings than a fashion magazine might stir
up.
Recruiters use a candidate’s profile as part of the screening process,
but those recruiters have rejected candidates based on the content
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