Sunday, July 3, 2011

City Living Affects Brain

What do you think about this?

Personally, I...don't really see a point in building city landscapes based upon this concept. But I like the observation, despite how it doesn't make as much sense as I thought it might.

Manning asked me yesterday why I deactivated Facebook. The reason is quite simple. It's much like what is described in the link above.

Facebook is now almost the virtual representation of society. If you haven't known about it, or that I haven't made it explicitly known yet, I am in a contradictory, possibly paradoxical, position about society--I find it close to something like an abomination.

I have several thoughts as to why I don't like Facebook.

I am highly introverted.
This is painfully obvious, but I'd just state it anyway. I don't need a lot of stimuli to keep my mind going, and I don't need human company for a lengthy period of time to let my mind chew on things. That said...

Facebook is too damn noisy for me.
No, it's not about individual posts whatsoever. It's just that, the moment I load Facebook, I am faced with an entire list of people saying everything from their damaged aircons to something as serious as perhaps, a death or two. I am not against people saying whatever they want. But the problem is, it isn't much different, to me, from being in an overly crowded IT Fair. That's just how sensitive my mind is...

I can't take the excess external stimuli.
This is the main reason. I can't explain why, but being on Facebook, I feel forced into a social situation. I don't like the new random Add Friend requests. And there is so much information, my mind is constantly doing some sort of filtering and processing. Worse, most of the processing is taking place for unimportant things. Don't know if it sounds weird, but I feel very overwhelmed, pressured and stressed after long exposure to Facebook.

I don't understand the point of Facebook (for myself).
Yeah. I don't understand Facebook. I'm not interested in a lot of people's lives and I don't see a need to be updated about them. I only have a few groups of people in my life I care about, and I don't want to lump everyone into one space called Facebook. It makes no sense whatsoever to me.

I prefer some quiet room. And to be honest, I don't like to be found. I'd rather people just approached me if and when they want to meet up. I'm an ass, I know... Yeah...

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