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Facebook and the Monster There is an advert on TV Selling Facebook to you and me And it all seems so good Wholesome and fun This is how life really can be If only you join the Facebook community And it all looks so safe and soft Nothing can go wrong Those first tentative steps you take On Facebook Will net you real friends The kind that will stand by you over and over again Will maybe end up being your best man Lifelong pal Even your wife Or a soul mate for life An ally when times get rough And it’s all thanks to Facebook But if you look past the soft focussed view The warm feeling, captured by that lovely hue Today reality is much too bleak to view Which is why people are using Facebook To avoid real life And not going out with their pal, ally or wife Real life just contains too much strife Stay online Where it is ‘safe’? Where you don’t have to risk Not being ‘you’ Well the one you have now created in Facebook Land Where you can be anyone you want Especially not yourself Who would want to be that anyway? Even you don’t value you anymore You have effectively shut the door On yourself and your old life Maybe even your wife Where one in five quote ‘Facebook’ the source Of their marital strife Before the judge, in court, in real life That day you have to come face to face With the fact that you have a wife And she’s going to divorce you because your online self Has taken over and the man she loved Has become an unsatisfiable arsehole Who knows anyone on Facebook anyway? You never meet up, get together You don’t even know who you are messaging today Or if those events you are being sold have any basis in reality? Your ‘mate’ on Facebook – you know ‘Dave’? Who is ‘Dave’ anyway? But you don’t ask – it’s not the Facebook way Online he has a great life, seems a ‘great guy’ But in reality is he maybe a crook? Someone who would not give a f*ck About you if he came up against you in real life Would stab you in the back And not think twice – that’s the kind of people you meet in real life As long as he’s won and it’s important to look the champ Especially in Facebook Land You bet his ‘success’ would go on his page (But how he got it all, well that’s another tale) Just so you can see that he is ‘the man’, with ‘the plan’ (kindly continue to part 2)
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