As per Indian mythology every thing that starts ends and same is applicable to all things including Social Media. As Facebook is gaining popularity and more and more new people are getting addicted towards Facebook. What about people who are already addicted?
A new phenomenon is on the rise of the people who are frustrated with Facebook. There comes a point of time when people just give up on Facebook. What they do? Well they simply go ahead and delete their facebook account.
This killing of your virtual identity from the cyber world is called "Facebook Suicide". There is also a website dedicated in helping people quit Facebook. The website is called as quitfacebookday.com. In this website people who have quit Facebook or committed Facebook suicides register themselves. You can also get reminder for quitting Facebook if you register over there.
Some of the reasons why people are committing Facebook suicides are:
A new phenomenon is on the rise of the people who are frustrated with Facebook. There comes a point of time when people just give up on Facebook. What they do? Well they simply go ahead and delete their facebook account.
This killing of your virtual identity from the cyber world is called "Facebook Suicide". There is also a website dedicated in helping people quit Facebook. The website is called as quitfacebookday.com. In this website people who have quit Facebook or committed Facebook suicides register themselves. You can also get reminder for quitting Facebook if you register over there.
Some of the reasons why people are committing Facebook suicides are:
- Spending hours in front of Computer screen.
- Reading boring updates from friends :D.
- Frustrating Spam attacks on Facebook.
- Exhaustive and addictive games on Facebook.
- And lot more.
very interesting read Harshad....:))
ReplyDeletebutt i think ppl committing facebook suicide are much less than those joining it every day.
Yes Irfan its very true..that ppl joining FB are much more than people leaving..
ReplyDeleteOh! It's really sad. But it's true that we get frustrated by this virtual world after some time. But it depends we can get real friends too.
ReplyDeleteNice article, as usual...I read about some people and searched on google and got your article on top. :)
This trend is very much there in US where people have been using Facebook longer than other parts of the world. Facebook like Google keeps improving and keeps the users away from pressing the suicide button. But there comes a time when you are fed up and you move on..
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by ..Mohinee..