What would happen if Facebook disappeared?

Báo Đại Đoàn Kết•13/03/2024

Facebook in particular, and social media in general, has become an addiction in modern life.

From the user's perspective, even the most ordinary social media user would find their lives turned upside down. For example, they would lose all the photos they've saved commemorating events and activities with family and friends.

For online sellers, this means losing their livelihood. And they don't know how to regain their customer base if Facebook disappears.

The problem of over-reliance on social media is real, and if it disappears, it would be extremely detrimental to tens of millions of people.

Undoubtedly, Facebook in particular, and social media in general, has become an addiction in modern life. Social interactions today no longer take place directly (face-to-face) but depend on posts. Many people post on Facebook and Twitter seeking the approval of others through likes.

The tendency to count likes to satisfy one's ego, believing that the more likes one receives, the more popular they become, has daily led to people becoming less empathetic, less understanding of others, and more arrogant. It's not uncommon to see friends sitting together, not saying a word to each other, all glued to their smartphones and typing away.

Even in the park, people are walking and browsing Facebook at the same time. It seems that Facebook has become the only way for many people to interact with family and friends.

If Facebook disappears, we'll still live, but we'll have to learn to adapt to life without it.

But as we mentioned above, it is entirely possible that Facebook – the world's largest social network – could one day suddenly disappear. However, other platforms have emerged and will continue to emerge to replace it.

Currently, many businesses and organizations are creating content simultaneously across multiple social media platforms, both to take advantage of all opportunities and to guard against potential problems on one of the platforms.

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Without Facebook, we no longer need to express our love for our parents through Facebook.
Losing Facebook has its advantages. Losing Facebook might mean we no longer express our love for our parents through Facebook, no longer post photos of them with beautiful messages of longing. Instead, we'll put our phones away, bring a delicious treat to visit them, and leisurely chat with them without the constant interruptions from commenting, liking, and sharing.
Children would probably be happy if Facebook were gone, because they could study and grow up in peace, without their parents posting pictures of their excellent grades or photos of them playing music, drawing, or baking. Children learn and work with innocence and passion, while we, as parents, post pictures of them with hidden boasts behind a facade of modesty and reticence.
Losing Facebook might erase many debates, discrimination, and animosity, helping to end the divisions between friends, acquaintances, and communities, at least temporarily. Communities, society, and the world would return to peace before people could devise new wars to hurl insults in new forms.
Losing Facebook also gets rid of some self-righteous preachers, some "Guangzhou bodhisattvas," some scammers, some foul-mouthed trolls, some show-offs, some pathetic people, and some ex-lovers.
JOURNALIST MY HANG

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