Facebook and the Monster - Part 1 of 2
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)
Copyright © Anna Archichek | Year Posted 2015
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