For the past year, Facebook has slowly been annoying the hell out of me more and more. I've reached the point where I've deleted almost everything off facebook, including photos, some posts, and some "friends". If you are someone I know/knew and were in one of the photos I had up on facebook, if I have a copy of that photo and you want it, just let me know - I'll send it to you.
I got sick of all the applications that people were using, and then all the invites they'd send. I got sick of all the photos people would upload. I got sick of allt he pages people liked, and all the groups people joined.
I got sick of all the CRAP PEOPLE DO ON FACEBOOK!
In retrospect, Facebook was one of the reasons why I was not liking my previous job/location in Korea. Everyone was on facebook, and therefore, up with everyone's business, if they liked it or not. Basically, everyone was in everyone else's business - even in an indirect manner. It was like 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon. It was one of those situations where you had to be careful with what you said everywhere, because it had the potential to come back and bite you on the ass. Maybe that reflects the people who were living there, rather than their use of facebook. Facebook just helped speed up the process.
And yeah, I was part of that, too. The "foreigner group" in the place were I lived was just too much. Once I left that place I felt a sigh of relief. It was like there a separate bubble, in which the "foreign teacher group" lived in. I met a few nice people there, with one that I am in contact with on a regular basis, even after we both left that hell hole.
I've learnt from my 2nd Korean experience and don't want to forget it, since I don't want to forget the lessons live learned from it. That experience is also the reason why I'm going back to hagwons, moving closer to Busan, and will not be using facebook like I did when I moved to Anseong.
End rant.
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pics! well, i got quite a few off of your cyworld...you're not quitting that, right? :p
ReplyDeleteI can relate to this. I have a tendency to stay away from fellow non-Koreans and native English teachers just to avoid being associated with them, or to avoid their drama.
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