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FaceBook Phobia
As much as I love the interactions I have only through FaceBook, I completely understand why some people would avoid social media to the point of a phobia. If you use some form of social media regularly, your every move is easy to track, especially for the people who know you.
As I use FaceBook not only to recover from an episode that I am told has caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and social phobia, I have also learned how I can use it to facilitate specific life goals. This means I am not just on FaceBook a lot, but I open myself up to a great deal of criticism because of my use of this social media. My activities are posted for everyone to see, and, since I have yet to publish the process of my experiments, a lot of what I do would appear useless to others. When I am playing a game, posting random gifts to the boards, another may see wasted time that would be better served planting real vegetables.
By the time I got through my dad's second marriage, I had become well adjusted to the fact that not everyone approaches life the way I do, and some people can't help but be critical of that fact. I'm not overly traumatized by the perceptions of others, even if it may make me sad. But I am overly sensitive when it comes to other people's emotions, so I feel it's important to have an understanding of these extremes that can go along with changing times. Just as some people can't seem to get enough of something, there will always be others who anxiously avoid it. This is acceptable, and understandable even.
Every day when I get up, I open FaceBook. Through this social media I share the lives of people I may otherwise have no interaction with at all. I can tell when loved ones are getting through each day, even if only barely, and I can enlighten a darkened spirit. I also share the ebbs and flows of my own life, often in ways I may not intend. As I make each post, I am aware of those individuals who's activity I miss. Some I do have other ways in which to communicate; often I know it's more about their desire to remain "off the grid" than lack of social flavor. Even in absence, a person can be present. That's good to remember as each of us use what is available to us in our own individuals ways.
As I use FaceBook not only to recover from an episode that I am told has caused Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and social phobia, I have also learned how I can use it to facilitate specific life goals. This means I am not just on FaceBook a lot, but I open myself up to a great deal of criticism because of my use of this social media. My activities are posted for everyone to see, and, since I have yet to publish the process of my experiments, a lot of what I do would appear useless to others. When I am playing a game, posting random gifts to the boards, another may see wasted time that would be better served planting real vegetables.
By the time I got through my dad's second marriage, I had become well adjusted to the fact that not everyone approaches life the way I do, and some people can't help but be critical of that fact. I'm not overly traumatized by the perceptions of others, even if it may make me sad. But I am overly sensitive when it comes to other people's emotions, so I feel it's important to have an understanding of these extremes that can go along with changing times. Just as some people can't seem to get enough of something, there will always be others who anxiously avoid it. This is acceptable, and understandable even.
Every day when I get up, I open FaceBook. Through this social media I share the lives of people I may otherwise have no interaction with at all. I can tell when loved ones are getting through each day, even if only barely, and I can enlighten a darkened spirit. I also share the ebbs and flows of my own life, often in ways I may not intend. As I make each post, I am aware of those individuals who's activity I miss. Some I do have other ways in which to communicate; often I know it's more about their desire to remain "off the grid" than lack of social flavor. Even in absence, a person can be present. That's good to remember as each of us use what is available to us in our own individuals ways.