Hi
everyone!
I decided to
write this one because it’s the season of Lent. And I’ve been going about with
an anti-Facebook campaign recently.
Basically my
main aim is to convince people that there are far more pressing problems on
earth, far more important things that needs to be done than to
waste their time on facebook.
I’m going to
give you 3 reasons why youth (or anyone) don’t need facebook.
1) Facebook is capable of making you a
self centered, vain and narcissistic person. In due course, we start pretending
to be someone we are not. We hide behind a false front and project our lives to
be far more exciting and glamorous than it actually is.
2) I'm not homophobic but will it not be strange that you will soon be
sharing your posts with people of 50 different genders. You heard it right!
FB
is about to introduce 58 different gender orientations for its users to choose from….
including trans-male, trans-female, asexual, polygender, trans
with an asterisk (whatever that means), Non-binary and a whole bunch of other
weird half-breeds- including a centaur. I’m kidding… but soon they will be
having a centaur in there, I tell you.
3) People spend 110 billion minutes each
month on Social networks put together. That’s about 2000 years each month.
Think about all the inventions we could have done, all the stuff we could have
done to address poverty, all the medicines we could have made to heal the sick.
I mean, what
do you gain from reading things posted by your friends anyway? Most times, it’s
meaningless. “I looove my new haircut”<everybody’s like ‘So what?’>,
“Today was the best day of entire my life!!!” <Nobody actually cares!>
How much time does it take to post something on Facebook? 20 seconds?
Every 20 second someone dies by suicide somewhere in the world. Someone who was
too lonely and depressed; Someone who had no one to share their problems with,
because their friends were too much preoccupied with Facebook and other social
networks.
Every minute you spend on facebook, 14 children die a premature death
because of sickness in third world countries.
There are more pressing problems that we need to address: War,
terrorism, poverty and sickness...
We want others to think well of us. But unlike others, God doesn’t judge
us by the selfies we post.
You might say that you keep in touch with people because of facebook.
But I tell you, if someone really cares, they will have time to call you, no
matter where you go. I know because, I’ve been off facebook for two months now.
And before I went to Glasgow, I had my account off for 1 whole year. True
friends have always taken pains to call me. And the others who never called,
they are not worth my time!
The Lent days start from today, the Ash wednesday. Jesus fasted in the
wilderness for 40 days. These 40 days till Easter, we can give up one thing we
like a lot. I personally feel God will be happier if you give up facebook and
do something constructive with that time, more than you decide to fast or
whatever.
Life is full of choices. It would be easier if God tells us, do this and
don’t do that. But he doesn’t. He gives us the freedom to choose the good and
the bad. God says, “I’m putting the good and the bad in front of you, choose
the right thing”.
I’m telling you from my own experience. Deleting your facebook profile
is not easy (it's still hard for me to think of doing it again), but I know it’s definitely worth it!