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nope. /people/ are responsible for destroying marriages and relationships. Making excuses is simply a denial of accountability.
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As "an addiction", facedbook is no different from any other activity that takes time away from the relationship: TV, video games, work, gangster obligations, model rocketry, working at charity soup kitchens.
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As "an addiction", facedbook is no different from any other activity that takes time away from the relationship: TV, video games, work, gangster obligations, model rocketry, working at charity soup kitchens.
I think the real issue with facedbook is a combination of two things.
1. The gossip factor, only magnified to an incredible degree. More people than every before know everything about what others are doing, thinking, scheming, trying to cover up.
2. Instant access and the 'no cool-down period'. Used to be in a dispute with a friend you would storm out of their presence, stew and mull a while, get input from friends/family, and have time to make your decision about a response with a cooler head prevailing. With instant access people are quick to grab their phones in a fit of anger and blog off nasty messages about what's happened and what they're feeling to dozens or even hundreds of people who then forward it around and around 'till everyone's more a part of the problem than the solution. It's like some huge real-time reality game-show . . . only people's lives are the toy, and there's no lovely parting gifts.
Just some not-so-lovely partings.
Again, there is nothing particularly insidious about facedbook or social networking in general. It has a lot of benefits. It's more like it's simply accentuating an issue present in people.
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People are responsible for there own filters and there own choices. That being said the amount of filters necesarry for the amount of choices now available, has probably grown faster than the ability to grow those filters.
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