It's probably safe to say that by now you have been fed up with your Facebook feed. You're probably not crazy about everything that you see, but you might just be too lazy (of feel too bad) to unsubscribe from someone else's posts. The truth is, that most of the stuff that you see on Facebook just doesn't mean anything.
Think about it - if you make plans with a friend on Facebook, you are probably going to confirm those plans with a phone call or a text message. Although Facebook is a 'social' media site, it is never a terminal channel for organizing your actual social life. But despite how unofficial and non-authoritative Facebook is, we can sometimes get caught up in the news-feed frivolity and contribute to the flow of nonsense.
This article talks about how Facebook fails as a successful way to endorse awareness about a serious issue: breast cancer. It talks about some little 'game' that has been circulating the social media space that aims to create awareness about the disease, but fails because of how we view information on Facebook. Originally intended to be a little activity to (somehow) educate people about breast cancer, the game simply falls victim to the problem of meaninglessness that affects everything that we put on our profile page.
The article goes on to remind readers that breast cancer is a serious reality, and that it not something that people should be treating as a 'game'.
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