Ήταν πριν από λίγες ημέρες όταν μια φίλη μου έστειλε το link ενός νέου social media, με την ονομασία Minds. Βέβαια, σιγά το τρομερό νέο, εν έτη 2015 να εμφανίζεται ένα καινούργιο μέσο κοινωνικής δικτύωσης. Η διαφορά όμως του Minds είναι άλλη: έχει την στήριξη των Anonymous, υπόσχεται να κατslowσει το social φακέλωμα και έχει ως στόχο να κοιτάξει στα μάτια το Facebook – don't tell you to wipe it off the social media map.
Ok, though, for the beginning, this disappearance seemed to me from a difficult to science-fiction scenario that only George Lucas could think of in his good old days, the truth is that I was asked the question: How would our lives be without Facebook ; What would we miss? Why would we be delighted to end it?
So with that in mind, I decided to make my own list - a list of the 5 good and the 5 bad if Facebook closed forever today.
The good
The end of Internet bullying
Good social media, we do not say, but just after their birth they became the shelter of every bully. The drums who played hard at school, while in the nineties they felt their dominance ending with the end of the school, today they continue to terrorize and intimidate those who do not like it. Of course behind a fake name and profile because it is known that the first bullies are bullies themselves.
But if Facebook was closed, all of them would immediately return to the obscurity and misery of their everyday lives. Go for good.
The end of the stalkers
I still remember those innocent, romantic, nights in the pre social media era. Then you wanted to go for a walk and you chose who and who did not account to anyone. Now, you go out for a drink and every bitter person knows it. Well up there, you were. But if your other one has said "go for a drink to say", you play it tired and phase we see and come the hangman and make you a tag "here we break it in the Key Bar" or after you manage the moaning and kites " a, did you finally come out yesterday? And why did not you tell me? And I wanted to come. Probably you were not too tired? " What do you say; E?
The end of the spoilers
Monday morning at the office, you look at the clock and beg for the time to pass, to go home, to order pizza, drink a cold beer and enjoy in the dark the last episode of the 5th cycle of the Game of Thrones. And just when the imaginations are running red, Agathoklis pops up, that sought-after friend you have on Facebook, who deals with creative advertising (whaaat?), goes to all the fashion blog events, drinks cocktails in Agia Irini square and keeps changing his profile picture - i.e. he does nothing and watches series all day - and posts "RIP Jon Snow".
What do you say? What am I to blame for you and you broke me in the evening? How stupid are you? Because you have no life and you see the 3 series after America, why should I pay for it? Be hello, too.
The end of omniscient
It is well known that we Greeks know everything. OK, we do not know, but we have an opinion on everything. It also looked old in the newsletters when the reporter asked "What would you do with the economy" or in the monthly magazines that made tributes "If you were for a day prime minister". Everyone thought they would be the best.
But since Facebook appeared the know-it-alls in Greece they multiplied at a crazy rate. Probably the social media struck a sensitive Greek vein and suddenly everyone became analysts, economists, sociologists, saviors, experts, great journalists, not to mention futurists, who predicted what they say in a post they posted on April 3 at 16.34:XNUMX.
Of course now, despite so much knowledge as a country going from evil to worse, it is something I can not explain. Not even science.
The end of isolation
You see a 20 on Facebook and it's so cool and comfortable that you think 'nice guy'. And you get him out, in a bar and reminds you of the loser of your childhood. Isolated in a corner, not talking to a person and looking at his cell phone.
If Facebook was finally closed, one thing is certain: young people should learn to communicate. You do not call it bad.
The Bad
The end of the update
Do not hide behind our finger. If Facebook were shut down, 90% of Greeks would not know what is going on in this country - that is, 90% who do not buy newspapers and do not watch the news. Are we going bankrupt, is there a course, an extraordinary Summit, are we going to elections, a strike, is it over?
Nothing, we would not get a dime, we would live in his world of three singing and two dancing.
The end of the unexplored Politics
And I'm not saying that amongst the stars-now-on-TV. Here we are talking about a political unexpected. Why do you look at the thing. A few years ago, what did you know about the politicians? That they say things you do not understand, but rather rightly they will say why they are serious, they know, scientists people.
While social media has masks. Political učení? The best you will achieve. Threats, blessings, scolding, bullying, or hooliganism in coffee shop discussions.
The end of friendship
Yes, our lovers love us. I do not disagree, but let's admit this to end: without Facebook, many friends would have ended. Are you looking for why? Take the answer with a trap question: how many friends do you remember? How many?
The end of entertainment
If you are a XNUMAAppa you will always remember with nostalgia the hours you spent in the record stores watching the albums and playing in the end crown letters which you will buy. Maybe you remember the evenings that you went to the video club and think, "Very hard to die or a gun?" Yes they have this romance, except that you saw the 30 Xenum X when 1 was already released, and Kurt Cobain and Nevermind when they made 2 in the United States for committing suicide. True story.
The truth is that without Facebook we probably would not know what True Detective and Game of Thrones are.
The end of easy flirting
We all do it, we all know we will miss it.
Froyxos Fintanides Vice Online Editor
