“Thieves robbed homes based on Facebook(FB), Social media
sites”, reads the headline of a news report published on WMUR website of the
state of New Hampshire – USA on 9 September 2010. This article outlined several
cases of robberies where goods worth of about $200,000 were stolen from
different houses based on the FB status updates which conveyed the necessary
information to break in a house.
Many of us seem to enjoy the weirdness of getting ‘naked’ on
the FB wall. Posting and revealing personal stuffs or ‘to-do-list’ on Facebook
wall ultimately convey the required information for someone to break in to your
house or to plot something of his/her interest against you. Despite these facts
many of us pretentiously spread out our daily menus and agendas on the wall of
FB.
In our culture it is odd and awkward to express romance or
deepest feelings to ‘lovers’, partners, husbands and wives publicly. Though
culturally odd, good and creditable changes can still be introduced or
practiced against culture. I am just trying to convince myself how exulting it
is to display the deepest feelings to the loved ones, especially those between
husband and wife on FB status bar which is in a way a public notice board. Wouldn’t
it be true or touching if you say ‘love you baby’ or ‘ummmmahh’ or whatever it
is through a private message. Shouldn’t there be a fair limitation to some of
our words and statements although it’s our right to write on the status bar? Or
is it that expressing romance publicly is a degree of love few people could
attain? I do know that FB’s admin is active in ‘moderating’ the whole thing the
way they want it.
The following conversation which I saw from the FB page
‘Purity Starts here’ hooked my attention and triggered me to ponder upon the
weight of a publicly and secretly said ‘I love you’.
Husband
to his wife: “ I want you to say: ‘I love you’, In front of the whole world”....wife
approached her beloved husband, and
whispered in his ear ‘I love you’….husband, turned to her and said sadly : “Why
did not you say it to the whole world?"
Wife replied: "Because you are the whole world to me"
Wife replied: "Because you are the whole world to me"
I guess it is better to limit FB’s status updates to the
extent and degree that we don’t mess up our safety and relationship with our show
off attitude. Every problem is not to be facebooked, but to be faced and
tackled by you.