What Is The Meaning Of Life When We're Faced With So Much Superficiality?
From Facebook to fashion magazines the world is littered with what seems to be meaningless trash. I could be being a bit harsh but as a consumer of both Facebook and fashion magazines I feel justified in commenting on whether or not these ultimate tools of distraction are meaningful or meaningless. I suppose what I'm keen to better understand is that with the world awash with such superficiality what is the meaning of life? Or is it that it's just become human nature where we really don't know the difference between what is meaningful or meaningless so that things like Facebook actually become a sanctuary for our lives?
And Facebook has certainly become a sanctuary for quite a few of us. According to the online social networking phenomenon, the site has more than 800 million active users, and of these more than 50% log on to the site in any given day. And it's so easy to access, with the site saying that more than 350 million active users currently use Facebook through their mobile devices. So you can stay connected at any time of the day from wherever you happen to be.
Facebook says the average user has 130 friends, which I find staggering, as I certainly don't have anywhere near 130 friends and it makes me wonder how close these friendships are. Even among the small group of friends I have on Facebook I know that I have a close relationship with only a handful.
Regardless of the depth of relationships on Facebook, the Daily Telegraph reports in an article, interestingly and amusingly, titled A chance to share boredom with Facebook's new app that the social networking giant has released 60 new apps this week that ‘let users share the tiniest details of their lives on their Facebook profiles'. These applications let users ‘share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner and details on what they are wearing to what concert they scored tickets to.' This is in addition to existing applications that let users share the music they are listening to and the articles they are reading.
Wow, I mean who wants to know this sort of stuff? I don't and I certainly don't want to be or think I need to be sharing with my 130 imaginary friends what I ate for dinner last night. The Daily Telegraph's headline is spot on.
The article also says that ‘Facebook is calling it "frictionless sharing".' But I call it spreading superficiality and brings me back to my question of what is the meaning of life?
In my search for an answer to my question of what is the meaning of life, I came across a website for the World Transformation Movement, which seems to be taking a real look at things – there's even a book called The Book of Real Answers to Everything. I found this really refreshing and has inspired me to post about it on Facebook as I thought my friends might be more interested in that than the Mediterranean lamb dish I enjoyed for dinner last night, well I hope so anyway.
And Facebook has certainly become a sanctuary for quite a few of us. According to the online social networking phenomenon, the site has more than 800 million active users, and of these more than 50% log on to the site in any given day. And it's so easy to access, with the site saying that more than 350 million active users currently use Facebook through their mobile devices. So you can stay connected at any time of the day from wherever you happen to be.
Facebook says the average user has 130 friends, which I find staggering, as I certainly don't have anywhere near 130 friends and it makes me wonder how close these friendships are. Even among the small group of friends I have on Facebook I know that I have a close relationship with only a handful.
Regardless of the depth of relationships on Facebook, the Daily Telegraph reports in an article, interestingly and amusingly, titled A chance to share boredom with Facebook's new app that the social networking giant has released 60 new apps this week that ‘let users share the tiniest details of their lives on their Facebook profiles'. These applications let users ‘share everything from photos of what they cooked for dinner and details on what they are wearing to what concert they scored tickets to.' This is in addition to existing applications that let users share the music they are listening to and the articles they are reading.
Wow, I mean who wants to know this sort of stuff? I don't and I certainly don't want to be or think I need to be sharing with my 130 imaginary friends what I ate for dinner last night. The Daily Telegraph's headline is spot on.
The article also says that ‘Facebook is calling it "frictionless sharing".' But I call it spreading superficiality and brings me back to my question of what is the meaning of life?
In my search for an answer to my question of what is the meaning of life, I came across a website for the World Transformation Movement, which seems to be taking a real look at things – there's even a book called The Book of Real Answers to Everything. I found this really refreshing and has inspired me to post about it on Facebook as I thought my friends might be more interested in that than the Mediterranean lamb dish I enjoyed for dinner last night, well I hope so anyway.
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