Thread: Addicted to WOW(world of warcraft) marriage falling apart

Originally Posted by oxy-moron

I think that the social element is more of a factor than you think.
Facebook and Twitter are equally as a big a waste of time and relationships and these are more utilised by Females.
US women now outnumber men on Facebook 1.35 to 1 ( 2009).

Of course Facebook has its benefits but it also allows people to escape form their lives and waste a lot of time.

I'd assume this is true because women, on average, enjoy to be looked at, to upload photos in this or that dress, at this or that party, with this or that new guy (not my thing at all, but that's a different subject). It satisfies the need of such women to be admired like the XYZ star on the magazine, the newspaper, the TV and so on, especially when they aren't admired by their partner/don't have one and even more so when they are stormed with Photoshoped XYZ "hot stars". In a similar way that porn is an escape from reality and a waste of time (and some times money).

I've never liked any kind of online social networking, I've never liked their layouts or the way they 'force' young people to be 'popular' with 500+ "friends", but unfortunately, that's how we chose to use technology: As a means to isolate ourselves from the rest of the world and become as less dependent on others as possible.

Of course such places have advantages and they are almost impossible to avoid, but many of us don't realize how important privacy is in our lives. Instead, we rush to publish everything we do on Facebook and we actually feel good about it, since somebody actually cares (or so we imagine) and will start a discussion about the ice-cream we're just having. We may be living alone, maybe our friends are too busy to come by, we may feel lonely, but hey, somebody from the other side of the world talks about us on the internet. It can only be a good thing... right?