| Smoking | ||
| 1 | Addiction | Compulsion |
| 2. | 10 mins given to every cigarette (Giving away 5 mins of your life that you have lived and 5 that you haven’t). | A piece of Identity given away to facebook permanently everyday. |
| 3. | Starts as: Necessity during boredom -> kicking thoughts | Starts as: Boredom* -> Necessity for more boredom to create space for facebook |
| 4. | Wash your teeth in smoke before you brush | Wash your eyes in fb even before you smoke |
| 5. | Causes men to lie to their wife/family when quitting is suggested | Causes men/women to be embarrassed. I bought my blackberry (or any of the new phones) |
| 6. | Is an escape into a personal world for a few mins | Is an escape to another world that can be steered in any direction on the virtual scooter |
| 7. | Some of the greatest creators have been smokers. It’s a dash for 5 mins, gives you a headstart (placebo). | N/A. Perpetual presence |
| 8. | Fulfils a human need(quickest form of intoxication) | Fulfils the human need to socialize (virtually, giving the false sense of completion) |
| 9. | A strong intoxicant (eg. Anaesthesia) need only be administered once in comparison with light doses of cigarettes. Making the process endless unless one feels sick of smoke. However, it is small doses of intoxication alright. | Virtual socializing is no small doses of real socializing, making the process infinite. It can never fulfil the human need for socializing but leaves with a firmer belief that it can |
| 10. | Identity of man still the same | FB has an impact. FB user turns into the man who now believes that the search for social life is real but attainment is impossible. |
*Main Entry (Webster):
bore·dom
Pronunciation: \ˈbȯr-dəm\
Function: noun
Date: 1852
: the state of being weary and restless through lack of interest
This also means something can be of lesser interest when another thing definitely generates greater interest (relative interest). Suddenly I find my class mates wedding pictures who I haven’t met in twenty years more interesting than an upcoming board meeting.