Facebook Addiction : An Opinion

Just A thought.

Unless you're an overseas worker who constantly needs update from family and friends, I think it's best and healthier for some people to reduce their time off from using FB. Instead of dwelling too much time reading who says what, who went where, who's going out with whom and peeking over whatever else's are going on with everybody's lives, why not start living yours? Or continue with your own productiveness connecting yourself more to what's happening in real world than here online. Why is it so important for you to know what's everyone been doing on a daily basis? When you yourself should be doing fine.
Why won't you , for once, try to stop scrolling down the newsfeed area, log out and look around you, you might get to notice that your bathroom needs some cleaning, the plant outside needs some watering, that your little cousins or siblings need someone to play with or teach them math, that somebody around you might need some friendly talk more than any of your FB chat mates does, or you can go somewhere nice, or do something non-sedentary. You can measure up how much hours you consume online and try to imagine yourself using those hours into completing sensible tasks, you could have accomplished more. You might not even know that somebody around you got it long abhorring your lazy ass. And for me, it will be more exciting to find a long lost friend or a high school batch mate down the road and catch up with their stories that you've missed for years, then be surprised with it , coz hell yeah, Facebook didn't tell you first. My point is to not detest facebook completely, Of course not! I'm also using it as frequently as necessary but my regard is how much time I'm giving in to waste. Well. This is something to ponder on. Are you a facebook addict? Is it healthy? Did it caused you good? If your answers to it were Yes, and No and No. You're too old now to not know something about self control.

First.

One of the little things that I would like to accomplish this year, as part of Karen’s checklist of “things to do during your twenties”, is to create a blog filled with stuffs about my personal travels, foods, current events, interesting people, movie and book preferences I’d love to tackle about through writing.  I have not chosen a particular theme or main label to associate with this blog since I’ve intended to create this just to serve as my online journal or sort of like a cyber-portal that will lead any reader into my creative zone on a superficial level. I have so many plans for this blog and I’m super excited to fill this up with interesting contents. I just really hope that I’d be able to find the will to maintain this considering the fact that I am lazy. It even feels painstakingly challenging to think of trying to manage this thing over time.  Although I love English as my favorite school subject, I admit I’m not really good in it especially when it comes to proper grammar composition and choosing the right verbs, adverbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives to suit on whatever I’m trying to mean in every statements I say.  I also find the need to widen my vocabulary.

 Blogging is a hard task. Yes, easy to begin with but seem so difficult to maintain for months or years  but I’m quite determined to give it a shot and part of the difficulties I’m aware I’ll constantly struggle with is my not so good English writing or my wobbly thought delivery. I guess my deficiency in writing and composition led me to doing this because I assume blogging will help me harness my English skills. Each blog post I’ll be writing in days to come will be a perfect mean to practice and before I knew it, my English proficiency is developed. Not that being an expert in English language is a big deal but since I love to communicate and express my thoughts through writing, I want to get better at it. I want to excel on things I love doing. Anyway, a few people will probably wonder why I came up with naming my blog “Notebook ni Karya”. Well, I did not really base it on something extraordinary. The idea of naming my blog as if it’s a piece of a notebook is fitting to how I used to keep my random thoughts in an actual notebook, where I would scribble on any matters that appear memorable to me on a particular day. I did not necessarily call it a diary, just a mini journal. It started and often happened during my high school days and some days during college. Sadly, I lost those notebooks and the memories inside it. I’m still a big big fan of using pens and manually writing things on a paper but with all these gadgets in front of us to make things more efficient and organized, I’m turning my writing into typing and putting these words into the internet so I can share it to anybody, except telling anything too personal and emotional of course.

 It’s easier to revive and recall a memory when some visual stuff triggers it. May it be on a photograph, a video, an artwork, an old object,  a letter, or any written materials for that matter, it’s quite helpful to put down a precious memory or thought into something that will hold it and preserve it for quite some time. On my case, I’ve decided to keep it through blogging so that someday when I’m a bit older, as long as I and the internet lives, there’s always a big chance to recollect the important things that used to contain some bits of my silliness, idiocy, innocence, fondness, and honesty, those important things that will make me remember what I used to love, to hate, to enjoy and to cherish during some time in my past.. and maybe by the moment I reread them in the future, I can easily compare If I am still the same person I used to be when I was writing those blog entries  or whether some part of me has finally changed.