Your Face Tells All

I am an advocate for face-to-face interaction. Face-to-face interaction for me is like a drug. I come away from the ingestion with a high that slowly wears off. Crazy? Maybe. But truth. I suppose the high comes from the wit my fellow comrades seem to carry and the way they can make me laugh. Or maybe it is the very attractive young man sitting next to me that I know can't come via social media mediums. Maybe it's the intelligent or not-so-intelligent conversation that always seems to ensue among my peers that I delve into head first, reading every facial expression, every hand gesture, just to size up their character, life and passions. 

I thrive on this type of interaction. I do not thrive on Facebook interaction, however. That's why the short article about Facebook making people "sadder" was a piece of work I could say "Amen Hallelujah" to. My Digital Revolution teacher taught about this phenomenon, saying that users' compare their everyday life to someone else's highlight reel. The article agrees and deems this "social comparison." No thanks, not for me. Yes, I have a Facebook account but no, I do not check it regularly. There are highlight reels I am just not interested in seeing and getting worked up over when logically I know my life is full and blessings are abundant just the way it is.

The point is, maybe some die-hard Facebook users would disagree with this article, arguing that they log off Facebook with the same attitude or emotions they did before logging in. Sure, I'll go with it. But when you compare your stable emotions to the high I described earlier, aren't you even a little curious?