A net friend of mine had asked me why I use social networking sites. I immediately answered to get in touch with my friends. He otherwise said you use it to discreetly brag about yourself in a very one sided way. You put all the good things, places you’ve been, foods you’ve eaten etc.. You are using to make yourself feel good and make others feel bad about them selves. It’s a tool of self proclamation.

And in that instance I logged out of my facebook and twitter account. The impact of his words drench me like ice cold water and made me think why I use this sites. I for one, is one of those that updates status from time to time. I mean every minute. I even have connected my twitter on my facebook so all I think and wanna say I just tweet and its automatically spread out on my facebook page. I dig it for what ever reason there is. I was so hooked up closed to being addicted.

But I felt that I have to try atleast so I dared myself to not access the site atleast for as long as I could. . I cant stand not accessing it so after a few days I logged in and started reading updates from everyone on my list. And the the truth struck me, its all updates of friends, foods, places and self indulgence to a point that it almost made me feel envious and feel bad about myself. Could it be that somewhere out there, some one was feeling the same way when I was the one doing my updates?

I guess I will get to a point where I don’t need these sites anymore in my life but for now I just lessen my so called self proclamation posts. Kudos to my net friend for the awakening. I still access my FB and twitter but I rarely post. When I feel like saying something, I just look for a youtube song that best describe my feelings at that time and post it on fb. I eventually will deactivate my account. Taking it one day at a time.