Facebook—What’s All the Fuss?

Vall8 · Star Poster Joined: Jun 19, 2007 Posts: 16 Location: USA

Passing Fad or Social Trend?
Facebook is definitely the talk of the net. Everyone is adding friends, playing with new applications, sharing videos, and uploading pictures. Many internet users honestly admit that they’re hooked on the network and spend many hours socializing there.

However, very few understand why. Think about it: Why spend so many hours on something that offers you no benefit in the real world? Facebook is yet another easy getaway from the reality of everyday life. It lets us escape to a ready-made, imaginary world—a world where you have hundreds or even thousands of friends, a world of games, and a world where there’s no social friction (not yet, anyway). All day long, you can send and receive gifts, flirt, browse through people’s personal pictures… and the most painful thing that can happen to you is that someone decides to “poke” you, which means that a silly little icon will appear on your screen. Ouch.
But the question arises: Is Facebook actually becoming a substitute for socializing in the real world? Is it that hard for us to interact with each other in real life?
As it happens, we, humans, are social creatures. And as such, we love caressing our egos by showing everyone how beautiful, smart and clever we are—and of course, how popular we are. We love to see and to be seen, and a social networking website like Facebook gives us the perfect opportunity to do so: We can see the whole world and have the whole world see us, with our best foot forward, larger than life.
We present ourselves with our coolest pictures, many compliments and a lot of interests—which might all be covering up a deeper need—one that we all share, which Kabbalah calls “unity.”
Like Facebook, Kabbalah also has a lot to do with the connection between human beings. Kabbalists explain that deep down, we are all connected within a single, common soul—a mighty entity made up of myriad individual souls. On that level, we exist in reciprocal, continuous connection with each other, seamlessly intertwined as one integral system.

But at some point in our evolution, we lost our perception of that universal soul and stopped feeling our interconnectedness. The loss of this perception left us with a sensation of emptiness, a feeling that something is missing between us. Ever since, we’ve been searching for ways to compensate for this, to somehow restore the sensation of wholeness and unity that we once felt.
What do you think about it?
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All changes are ony in the perseivers. Baruch Ashlag
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