Facebook is an Entity, is it taking over you?
This post will require a very open mind, so take what you choose and leave the rest....
Ever looked up a definition and really thought about it's meaning?
In April this year I decided to go off facebook because I was wasting so much time on it, I would even say I was addicted to it. When I had a spare minute, I was on facebook. When I was sitting with friends and the conversation started to dwindle, I would pull out my phone and go on facebook. It got so bad that I couldn't even control myself enough to just choose not to be on it, I had to actually delete every friend off my account so I couldn't just reactivate it. How does social media have so much power over people? This is one of my explanations...
Like any other business, Facebook is an entity.
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary...
Full Definition of ENTITY
1 a : BEING, existence; especially : independent, separate, or self-contained existence b : the existence of a thing as contrasted with its attributes 2 : something that has separate and distinct existence and objective or conceptual reality 3 : an organization (as a business or governmental unit) that has an identity separate from those of its members
Definition of BEING noun be·ing \ˈbē(-i)ŋ\ : A LIVING THING : the state of existing : the most important or basic part of a person's mind or self
So to me, this is really an explanation for what I had already thought... Facebook is an entity, an entity is a being, a being is a living thing.
What does every living thing seek to do? Grow and survive. How does anything grow and survive? It needs to be fed.
As of the third quarter of 2015, Facebook had 1.55 billion monthly active users. That's a lot of energy going into one entity and it has become a very powerful one.
It is estimated that there are 2.2 Billion Christians and that is a BIG entity. I highly doubt that in the last quarter there was as many hours spent praying as there were people on facebook.
It's the same with tobacco, alcohol and other drugs as well as making money, watching T.V., video games, political parties etc. They are all entities and they have all been designed with a purpose... for you to consume them, buy them, crave them, steal them and believe them. once you give into them, you start to lose control and they start to consume you...
So next time you feel like something takes over you and you can't control yourself... It's probably because it has. It needs to be fed and if you are caught unaware, It will feed off you!