Facebook or Fakebook?

Who can guarantee that our new friends at facebook have an actual identity and information? From just a simple lie like name, marital status, age or jobs until the extreme example like 60 years old dude who pretend to be 16 years old teen girl. So, their complete existence is base on lies. The dark side of facebook often we knew about it later either from local news or our friend’s bad experiences, from things like divorce, child predator, human trafficking, character assassination and maybe many other sick things we don’t even want to know.

Often the addiction comes from appreciation and gratification, the more comments on our status the more we become addicted to it. Well, is not always a bad thing and sometimes even is a good thing. But it is always bad if we have a fake identity or information, it means we find appreciation from our fake identity as if we have double life (in reality and virtual) and eventually we can become sick emotionally.

Real life example such as divorce case begins from a wife who gets more appreciated on line than in real life. From a simple thing like that, in time the wife prefers to live her second life (on line) than in real life. The problem becomes greater because she did not do her obligation in household and the husband didn’t aware and cannot handle this issue.

There’s a Hadist narrated from one of the companions of the Prophet pbuh, Abu Hurairah ra: You will find from the most evil people in the Day of Judgment in the eyes of Allah, the men who have two different faces (munafiq). Those who have came to this group of people with this face and come to other group with that (other) face.

In other places, the two face person (munafiq) will be placed in the deepest fire of hell. Na’udzubillah, may Allah protect us from that attitude, protect us from the evil things from facebook and other social media. And on the contrary we can make benefit from it, especially we hope it can make us a better person and better servant to our Lord. Aaaameeeennn.