It's been a while since I last logged in my Facebook account. Why? Because I was spending too much time on it, I was involuntarily checking the page every 15 minutes for updates, craving for news from people that are currently not part of my life anymore. That is the negative effect Facebook was having on me: forcing me to spend time and energy with more people that I can handle, all together, and was not giving me the reward I always got, which is to become more intimate with each individual, have the feeling of being part of someone's life and have someone be part of mine. Millions of users access the website daily for many different purposes, and I was already starting to wonder if I was alone in my dilemma. Turns out there are many of us, books have already been published on this topic, I would not be surprised to find a Facebook page dedicated to this. I will share all the different ways Facebook seems to be affecting people on the next lines, and if you agree, well... I...
Since this year we will have elections running in Brasil, here is a political joke (quite funny, but unfortunately this REALLY happens) about how things work in South America:
Brazilian government wanted to build a new bridge. So, they started evaluating the projects of 3 different companies: a jJapanese a German and a Brazilian.
The Japanese project would cost U$1 billion and would take 2 years to be accomplished. The German project would cost U$2 billions and take 1 and a half year to be accomplished.
Then the Brazilian came to show his proposal.
- The construction of this bridge will cost U$6 billions and take 1 and a half year to be accomplished.
Being curious about the high cost, the government employee asked why it costs so much more then the others.
The business man then explained:
- Well, I will take 2 billions, you will take 2 billions, and we hire the German to build the bridge for us.
The Brazilian company was chosen to build the bridge.
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