Facebook Causes...

...only exist for you to show off. Seriously, they don't raise awareness, they only make you look like a cunt (at least in my mind). When I was a fresh faced fetus on Facebook, I didn't mind such things, but now I notice that people do these things just to wear them as badges, to show off to friends. Ooooh, look, how bloody intellectual I am...

I was recently forced into doing a Facebook campaign (for a class - it was a required assignment (don't ask)), and I feel pretty depressed about it. These things are so shallow...does anyone really care? Click a 'Like' button, only takes a second, and then forget about it. It will be there on your 'Info' page, for prospective stalkers to be fascinated with. And this wasn't even for something serious, it was just an awareness campaign for a fairly trivial thing.

Also, statuses like:

Blah blah blah...if you believe in X, repost this on your wall. 90% of the people who read this will not re-post it, because they are blah blah blah... 

These are fucking stupid. This is a bit like the Facebook equivalent of those forwarded emails with death threats at the end (e.g. the Bloody Mary will stab you in your sleep unless you forward this email to 200 people).

I have seen messages like this on everything from religion to cancer. If you want to post random declarations of your faith on Facebook be my guest, but don't try to shame everyone else into doing it. Religion, especially, is an extremely private thing for me. I don't want to repost your faggy status to declare my love for God on Facebook, so don't tell me to.

Another thing that really pissed me off recently was this post propping up everywhere on my wall:

All of us have a thousand wishes. To be thinner, to be bigger, have more money, have a cool car, a day off, a new phone, to date the person of your dreams. A cancer patient only has one wish, to kick cancer's ass. 

In honor of someone who died, or is fighting cancer, or even had cancer, post this for at least one hour.

I don't get it. I lost a family member to cancer, but I find that posting this on Facebook would be disrespectful to their memory.

Why would I want to 'honor' someone for dying of cancer? There is nothing honorable about someone's death. They didn't die willingly - it's not like they walked into a battle arena. It's a disease and it's horrible, and please stop turning it into a shallow spectacle on Facebook.

Also, my list of a 'thousand wishes' is not as shallow as yours, so fuck off.

Although, unlike the let-me-shame-you-into-reposting-this statuses, I don't object to people posting this on their walls, since it is their personal place, and they are welcome to write whatever they want, as long as they are not implying me to do something. I am simply showing my extreme contempt and disapproval of this, and pointing out how incredibly crass this is.