Dear Blog Readers,
Am I addicted? My generation is stereotyped as a 'bunch of hoodlems'. We are seen as hooded chavs addicted to heroin and smoking 20 a-day. It is my opinion that whilst my generation are addicts, they are addicted to a different kind of pot: Social Networking.
I am writing my blog tonight waiting for Big Brother to start whilst posting on Facebook and my newly joined Twitter account. One could call it multi-tasking, or in most people my age's eyes, it's just a typical Monday night. Yes, it's the summer holidays, but is social networking just a massive waste of time?
Once one has logged onto an unnamed social networking site, code named 'portrait-read' - no prizes for guessing which site this is - one is bombarded by annoyingly useless, yet unbelievably addicting to join, groups with names such as 'HAVE YOU SERIOUSLY LIKED YOUR OWN STATUS' which, not only being extremely hypocritical, clogs up one's 'wall' and takes valuable, now wasted, seconds to read. There are such groups on the lines of ':o look at this picture of Cheryl Cole!! - Must see' make one click on them, thus wasting even more time, especially if one's Internet connection is slow, 'LIKE' them, to 'see the picture' that actually doesn't even exist. It's very hard to pass up a group that is persuasively named and I find myself 'liking' an unmeasurable number of groups and pages within every hour spent on 'portraitread'.
I spend near enough every waking hour on 'portrait-read', with my new 'portraitread' itouch app making it every bit easier. I use 'portrait-read' as my hourly source of information about my 341 'close' friends, furiously 'liking' and 'commenting' on my 'dearest' friends statuses. The box labelled 'What's on your mind?' is, in my opinion, poorly labelled. I think it should be dubbed 'Post your entry for the 'who had the most depressing day' competition.' It seems, that I have added every single depressed teenage girl in the South. It also amazes me how 'portraitread' has managed to get millions of people to talk about themselves in third person.
I have liked nearly 300 groups since joining 9 months ago. My question is, is this a waste of time? Well, the answer is yes. I mean, being on Facebook isn't making me money, in fact, it's doing exactly the opposite.
People are always lecturing me on how getting good GCSE results will severely increase my chances of getting a high payed job, yet still, I do next to no revision, fullstop. Procrastination is a serious problem for my generation. To put it completely obviously and honestly, I'd rather 'waste' my time being humorous on 'potrait-read' than have my nose in a book, studying. Cramming, minutes before the exam, seems far more appealing than missing out on my free time. I have told myself that, when it comes to GCSEs i will mentally ban myself from social networking, but, realistically, I don't think so. If I fail my exams, I am blaming social networking.
Although I am sure I will regret it for life, but, pointless group liking and addictive notification replying, is the way forward.
Yours Youngsters_World
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