A comment I read recently on a blog, on the subject of the internet's sometimes predominance over "real life":
"This really is a big issue, and it's kind of sad. I turned off my facebook, so I wouldn't be tempted to sit on there instead of studying during exams (which as it turns out, there are many other things I can find to distract myself from studying), and my husband's grandma texted me a few days later, very upset that she could no longer see her family because I had left facebook... I felt a little bad, and then I realized, she lives TWO houses away from us. She can see her family any time she wants to!"
I'm beginning to dislike facebook more and more. It's pathetic, the size of our life it's taken up, displacing other important things. I know, it's nothing new...our Moms told us this would happen years ago, haha.
I'm not talking about using the internet as a tool, or even entertainment occationally. It's the constant pointless checking and re-checking, browsing through funny, but useless photos, and just wasting time that seems to have become so common. The internet has given us so much true opportunity, and we've abused it.
A class I'm taking about money talks about the "opportunity cost" of our monitary decisions. Like, if I buy 200 candy bars, I won't have the opportunity to go to summer camp. I feel like that applies to our time as well. What if, instead of wasting half of my waking hours on facebook and pinterest, I redeemed that time?
In all honesty, this post is really about me, disguised as a dissertation on other's internet habits. I'm sick of watching opportunity slip by, as I check my feed one more time. In the end, it comes down to this:
What am I willing to miss, by sacrificing time on the altar of amusement?
I feel as though you had the same 'A-Ha' moment I had yesterday. I revamped my blog. I am going to feature my photography on it and use my social medias to make me cash money. I will bet anything that you can use these platforms to catapult your future as well. And I have slowly learned to use my social medias instead of abuse my social medias. There should be some sort of protective services that takes your social medias away when you mistreat them. Mhmm.
ReplyDeleteThat's great, Pablo! And even going farther than making money, or promoting ourselves, I'd like to use my time doing something that really lasts. Money and popularity don't last forever and rarely give us true joy.
Delete