Facebook Suicide Response

Attempting to correlate the facebook suicide article to my own disuse of the networking site seems to be a largely futile effort. I don’t use facebook simply because I don’t want to, in the purest sense of the phrase. There isn’t any active dislike guiding my choice, it’s just a lack of drive to create a facebook page. Perhaps this can be related to the fear that facebook can become a gigantic time sink expressed in the article, morphing into something that controls the user more than they control it, but most seem to be able to handle keeping facebook under control. It’s also possible that there’s some subconscious process at work, a desire to stand out by not doing what everyone else is- similar to the article’s own idea of quitting actually feeding into narcissism- or some other motive. Delving down this path is largely fruitless, however, as anybody who cares to try can usually twist any given action or saying into meaning any number of things, especially when dealing with something as vague as the subconscious.