I took over Mona’s blog. I took over Mona’s blog!

Hello peeps, this Jade. I am a daily commenter on this blog, and I forced Mona to take a vacation from blogging. I think I want to be the Rebellious Arab Girl. Why is she the only one? Can’t all of us Arab girls hold that title? So I told her that her blog no longer belongs to her, and it is for all of us. She replied saying, “Bitch! I am out! Take it over and you deal with crazy comments!” I replied saying, “Bring it loser!”

I decided to write about The Atrocities of Facebook… Let’s discuss this bad epidemic eh?

Here we go peoplez!

Am I blinded by the corrupt system this society sits on? I mean what’s the point of conforming to the needs of this society when for the most part was founded on a bunch of lies? I mean give me a break, every year to three years some university junkie creates some sort of social networking web-site that everyone gets attached to. It gets to the extent where people forget how the sun set looks like; what’s the point? Are we that desperate to find friends over such websites instead of doing it the old fashioned way; through school, functions and etc? Tell me about it. I’ve been a victim of “social networking” for over 9 years. It’s like an addiction to a drug or smoking; once you start, it’s hard for you to stop. If you don’t receive your daily dosage of it, you feel lost, shattered inside, you keep on thinking about it, not allowing yourself to go half a day without it. Once you have that daily dosage, you forget your problems, and the world surrounded by you.

What ever happened to those days in which we would play outside with the neighborhood kids, ride our bikes, and go out for ice cream??? We weren’t as stressed out, we couldn’t care less of these stupid inventions (don’t get me wrong by all means it has it’s pro’s and con’s) and we were taking our sweet ass time trying to figure out things like what measures one person needs to take in-order to live a long life. People would actually go to the library, look up journals, research papers to get their answers. Nowadays, all we have to do is go on some search engine and type in “what measures one person needs to take in-order to live a long life,” and we would fine it within a heart beat.

Don’t get me wrong, the internet is a great thing, I mean come-on, we are talking about these “average Joe’s” coming up with new software, new ideas, every other month. But one thing that pisses me off the most, is that these so called social networking websites are taking over our lives. Maybe we aren’t using it for legitimate reasons? Who knows! Nowadays, it’s seems that these websites can either make or break a person. Facebook for instance; the majority of people use their “Status” to tell their friends and random people that they add what they are doing at that very moment. “I am at Tim Horton’s on Dundas and Hurontario” what if some Hill-billy on your Facebook was actually stalking you? What would you do in a situation like that? I mean a lot of sexual assaults, people running away, being killed, occur from such social networks. MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, etc.

I was a victim of Facebook and had at one point over 900 friends, and I thought it wasn’t a big deal, the more the merrier. But when I sat back and thought of it … damn … 900 people? I mean come on. Now, I reduced to less than 500. However, those 500 people that I have on my account are people that I actually know through school, work, conventions, friends, family, blogs and so forth. However, having so many people knowing the “in’s and out’s” of a person is kind of freaky. I don’t want hundreds of people knowing what I am doing at an exact moment.

My closets friends have my number so I really don’t have to worry about using Facebook to get a hold or keep contact with them. What I’ve noticed is that these days people only worry about the quantity of friends they have instead of the quality, damn. If I had one friend who I thought highly of and respected I wouldn’t give two flying craps about 300 other people. But these days, as Mona and I have discussed a while ago, that it’s hard to find good-true friends! Even your closet friend can hurt you. Why? Because they are the one’s who know most about you.

Over the past while I’ve started to realize that I am very content with the way I feel about my self, I don’t really find the need to be accepted on Facebook. Too much social drama; relationships break up over it-(happened to me at one point), people airing out their dirty laundry, you can catch someone cheating on it (happened to me at one point), who’s dating who and etc. It’s worse than an Arabic Soap opera. That’s why I’ve given up. I used to check Facebook more than 20 times on a daily basis. Thus, for over one month I haven’t checked it on a daily basis, what’s the point? People who need me contact my phone. Also, I haven’t been feeling lazy, started back at the gym, lost more than 10 pounds, got in touch with my friends, started reading more books, etc.

So I really don’t find the need to sit on a website that is time consuming, and does not give me anything in return other than a headache. For those people who use Facebook as a tool for dating; shame on you! Go out and mingle with people, do it the old fashioned way, you could never go wrong with that. I just don’t know why society has been changing so drastically, why is it that in order to be accepted in our society we need to be a part of such chaos? I don’t know. It’s something I haven’t touched basis on as of yet.

Now you got to watch this hilarious Facebook sketch. It couldn’t be more true!

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Note: If you want to take over Mona’s blog, all you have to do is write a lot of stuff, about anything that effects everyone else, and email it to her and tell her how awesome you are.

Email it to rebelliousarabgirl@gmail.com.
In the subject write: I AM TAKING OVER YOUR BLOG!

I think I will do this more often.

Peace out!

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