Ever since I started my LPC, everyone and I mean everyone on the stupid course is on Facebook. Even some of the lecturers (altho thats a whole other can of go-se). So what was I gonna do? When in Rome... do the Roman. I joined facebook... yes there i said. And i dont care what you think.
So now instead of bothering to take each others mobile numbers i get messages from people on the course on facebook. But thats only half the story. At first it was only people from my course, and then came people I previously worked with and then people I used to go to school with. And then the people on my MSN Messenger contact list from whom i regualry "Appear Offline" from.
Before I knew it, I was addicted to facebook. I was on there ALL the freakn time. Im getting messages every hour or so from dearly long and unfortunately not forgotten friends for the last couple of weeks. Ive now successfully broken up a couple, bcoz I told her the guy was a dooshbag (maybe not in so many words), ive not only "pitched" the idea of a school re-union ive managed to get a contact list and venue sorted out. Ive dragged two other people who were on the LPC through their assessments bcoz i refused to let them quit.
I guess you could say I once had to make a choice, and that choice cost me more than I want it to. Now the real test for any choice is having to make the same choice again knowing full well what it might cost. I guess I feel pretty good about that choice because here I am... at it again.
I hate it when I care about things. Its soo tiresome. I end up going out of my way to do things for others. And i know what you're thinking; that doesnt sound so bad. Well it is bcoz i get obsessed with things very easily not to mention distracted from the MORE important things in life.
I suppose to a certain extent, the revival is the same. It no longer serves a purpose for me. I cant remember the last time I learnt something new here about Islam. And yes, thats why i initially joined... all those years ago.
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The student has become the teacher...
POW!!
Facebook is ok for a little while, then you realise what a bunch of idiots all your all school friends turned into (or maybe that's just me).
Don't just do something! Stand there.
Since you are on facebook... you may or may not notice that I have added "service links" to blogs, images and articles.
You can bookmark them on places like... facebook. Not everything, maybe just the things you have written). Images you have drawn. Other content you like.
(for images, if you have bigger/better versions, you can edit those pages and replace them with the better versions...)
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Isn't that just encouraging people to show off?
Don't just do something! Stand there.
Nope - it is promoting the site.
I am also cynical enough to be of the opinion that people will be more likely/enthusiastic to promote The Revival if they are promoting themselves...
The buttons are there. If people prefer, they can use them for stuff they like rather than stuff they took part in.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Stop showing off!
Undefeatablelogicman
Don't just do something! Stand there.
They should rename Facebook "fitnah-book"
I'm personally of the opinion that the internet is more dangerous than the TV - it wastes faaar more time, has faaar more dodgy things on that sometimes you can't avoid or turn off quickly enough due to the pop up phenomena, and it encourages this superficial 'globalisation' of friendship, which isn't friendship!!! Friendship is about love and giving and sharing meals etc, not about a list on facebook - I ask people sometimes, "what's she doing on your facebook? i thought you weren't friends?" They answer, "we're not." But they like to nosey around other people's pictures (which, let's face it, are there a lot of the time to purely show off) and to be "fake friends". And plus, facebook is addictive, just like drugs are, and perhaps it's just as harmful for the heart...
ayesha
Alot of technology has the potential to be used in a dangerious manner. And alot of things are useless but we do them anyway. The problem is choice. We have the choice of using technology in a certain way that could be beneficial for us or dangerious for us.
I can honestly say theres no one on my facebook 'friends' list who isnt supposed to be there. Im very particular about who I call a friend and i've rejected a number of 'Friend requests' simply bcoz i have no idea who they are. But thats my choice. If people are gonna be dum and invite any old tom dick and harry then thats their choice (stupid as it may seem).
And yes, I agree facebook is addictive bcoz i can spend hours on there conversin with an old friend who ive not seen in years. But for me that would not be a wasted time. I still choose to get up at the right times to read my namaaz and to do other things.
The problem is choice.
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