After Facebook incident, many people want to reduce their dependence on social networks.

A young person's status after the Facebook app "crash" on the evening of March 5 - Photo: YEN TRINH

Some cases propose for themselves the solution of using social networks lightly, alongside other means of communication.

Fear of losing image, losing connection

Trung Thanh (30 years old, marketing staff in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City) was shocked. On the evening of March 5, after coming home from a party, he opened Facebook to inform his friends that he had arrived home, and was shocked to find that his account had been logged out. Immediately after, messages from Zalo poured in.

"When I opened it, I saw messages from groups of friends and colleagues who were confused because they couldn't log into Facebook. Most of them were afraid that their accounts would be taken over. Some of them were afraid that if they lost Facebook, they would lose all their memories, photos, and friend lists... from many years of using this social network," he said. Some of them were also very worried because they had registered for some online seminars via Facebook.

After that, he tried to log in many times. When he entered the Instagram app, the new update could not be downloaded, his heart was pounding and his legs were shaking.

A moment later, when he got to Facebook, he felt relieved. He quickly checked his messages to see if there was anything strange, and informed his friends that his account was fine.

A young person expressed concern on Zalo on the evening of March 5 about the Facebook outage that would affect his work - Photo: YEN TRINH

Not too worried about losing contact, but Ms. Bao Ngoc (25 years old, media staff, living in Thu Duc City) is worried that her account will be attacked and her personal information will be leaked.

"I'm not too worried about communicating via Facebook, because in urgent cases, I can still make phone calls. This is a platform with billions of users, so I think it will be restored to normal, otherwise it will affect the economy ," she said.

Live slower , less "magical"

Mr. Le Phat (living in Thu Duc City) confided: "After the Facebook incident last night, I suddenly realized that I need to live more slowly and adjust a few things."

According to him, relationships have long been established sometimes starting from social networks, and then having a phone number to make friends and work. Sometimes, a phone number is not even needed.

"From now on, I will limit this and go back to the traditional way of getting each other's phone numbers...", he said. He said he will limit his time on Facebook, only "pop up" occasionally to let his friends know he is okay.

Strengthen real-life connections instead of constantly surfing social networks - Illustration: YEN TRINH

Mr. Phat shared: "Since Facebook, life has had many interesting changes, finding old friends, making new friends. There are strangers whose Facebook names we sometimes only know, and then consider it the only tool to contact."

This creates a lot of virtual friends, virtual life and pulls you away from real life.

Instead of taking care of his own work and himself, he found himself focusing on taking care of his online image, hugging his phone to live with it. He jokingly said that when Facebook has a short problem, we panic as if we have been away from Facebook for a long time, and miss it as if we miss... our lover.

Ms. Ngoc said that her Facebook account was hacked before and it took her a month to get it back. "At that time, due to the nature of my work, I had to work and interact on the Facebook platform, so I was affected a lot," she said.

From there, she thought about how to use social networks without being too dependent. She expressed: "I think I should not be too dependent on social networks, always have other options for myself. Note that you should not post sensitive images on social networks or messages that are too private."

Besides Facebook, she also uses communication through Zalo and Instagram applications.

Although we know Facebook is necessary and convenient, it can be seen that after this incident, many people have changed their thinking about how to use social networks.

As a food, eat in moderation.

Mr. Le Phat shared that he will slow down his life to look back at how he uses Facebook so as not to become dependent. Besides, he will pay more attention to his real life, friends, and family.

"Social media is like food, eat just enough to be delicious and absorbent, eat too much and you will get indigestion and cause many consequences," he said.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/sau-su-co-facebook-nhieu-nguoi-muon-bot-le-thuoc-mang-xa-hoi-20240306130722282.htm