Study says that Twitter and Facebook cause depression. I was not behind the study to see what itt was saying, but I began to reflect on how the lives of many people today is a function of social networks. Sure it's healthy to connect with friends, either by phone, in person and now, the online social networks, where they share an event, common tastes, desires and expectations.
With rare exceptions (that shape pathologies), no one fully exchange personal contact by the digital. Quite the contrary! New friendships and romances have been born online, and even protests and reinividicações gain new dimension when present in the Facebooks of life.
But like everything in life, there are those who take everything too seriously, and such networks would not be out.
Some people do not eat and does not sleep, collusion ways to raise more "friends" or "followers." I am from the time that the term "follower" was linked to religions or sects, but today, some people find that follower, friend, or simply connect, it's all the same. Unless a user entity, to whom a large number of "followers" may be of great importance for their businesses, which in a sense any Joe like me or you, collect people like cattle?
I'm amazed to see applications that let your Twitter profile to follow those who follow you. What is the meaning of this? Incidentally there is some etiquette that says you are required to seguiralguém a social network just because she will "follow"?
For starters, by following someone? There are several reasons.
First, the real-life friends. His schoolmates, work, neighbors, the group's ballad. The virtual environment is an extension to the real-life events, and there are hold meetings and gatherings, to share pictures and comments to news. Still, nobody is forced to follow someone just because your friend is out of world digital. For example, the one that loved not only retweet news that interests you, the people you do not enjoy, called pings how many miles he ran in the early morning or just say things you do not understand Patavino.
I have made known to follow a timeline which was packed with songs from Ping.fm. She tried to protest, and I explained, good, that he had nothing against it. Except that my Twitter was so polluted it could not follow anything from anyone. Before his plea, I again followed her, but continued as the pings, I stopped back then. It's possible, yes, love and honor to a person without being required to know what she's listening to every minute.
Why follow that your colleague from the English course is on Twitter he only narrates football game, and you hate football? No offense, everyone does whatever they want on your profile, but do not feel stung when someone leaves you like to follow it! If you really are friends, there is a telephone and SMS. And hey this is much more valuable that mentions or direct messages.
Have you ever thought if I followed all who follow me? I think some people do, but I would not do anything else in my life. I have felt stress on Twitter because I could not keep up with the replies. I felt guilty because she could not answer everyone. And I was overwhelmed with information overload. It made you want to delete my account! Calmly, I did a self analysis to understand what really mattered, or whether it would be best to delete my profile. And they proved to be valuable replies to the questions, requests for reviews and share tips from readers.
I created an account with a service that sends daily all the replies of the day and from there I can organize future agendas, legal links and tips from readers to check out later, calmly. I separated a few minutes about 3 times a week to answer some. And ready. Moreover, I try to feed my timeline with useful information. I feel more peaceful, because I'm actually paying enough attention to who cares, my readers. The general timeline? Well, decreed bankruptcy. Now just follow colleagues with whom I eventually want to exchange messages directly. And follows the life.
Another reason to follow someone is to accompany any work you admire. There are people who have never seen personally, but I like to follow. And that will never require to follow me back. Because they address in their profile issues that interest me, such as mobility or cycling. They may be bloggers who comment on issues from their respective areas. Unknown but that, in any way interested to know the ballad in which they were yesterday, for example.
And there are other reasons. People who share interesting links. Dear people who have moved to other countries, and social networks makes me feel closer.
However, there are dear friends who prefer to "follow" in other ways, without necessarily being online. It even has politicians, some who do not like, but I follow to follow what they do in their appointed office. Simple as that.
Do not feel loved or despised on account of a number of either followers of comments, retweeting of tanned. Think of a hearing consistent with what you want to post, that really is interested in what you say. So if you're a pop musician, it is natural that has millions of followers willing to hear any nonsense that is. If you are a professional or a skateboarder, or a heavy metal fan, what matters is that his followers are somehow connected to it. No matter if they are 10 or 10 thousand.
Returning to the subject of depression, which is why so many people get sick social networks. Make a post and not receive a single comment makes you feel more lonely than a worm, flatworm. Some wanted to be the person with the largest number of followers in their city, or country. Do not know why. Would compensate for some empty? Or as a friend of mine jokes, to compensate for something small in their anatomy?
Some spend the day scouring posts and pictures of happy people. In social networks, everyone is beautiful, healed, hipsters, and made funny. It is no wonder that given time this unfortunate creature to feel ugly, lonely and miserable of the earth. Worse, perhaps many people who posts controversial or cute things to please thousands of followers, people are lonely or difficult to get along in real life. While you, with his 100 Facebook friends, you are never without company when you want a nice trip together.
Some stand neurotically checking, for half the day, statistics of visitors, who followed or failed to follow who favorited any photo or message. And the other half, planning the next photo stylish or witty saying it will bring more and more followers "favoritagens.
Or else, who must always be online, watching everything that happens to feel part of the world. And look ... the more paradoxical that it is connected, the greater the feeling that you are not doing everything. That information overload is insufficient. Or that you realize that accompanies so much nonsense that does not devote time to what really matters ... but can not get through the day without it!
It is living like this, there can not even get into a depression.
