After the Facebook incident, many people want to reduce their dependence on social networks.

A young person's status after the Facebook application "crashed" on the evening of March 5 - Photo: YEN TRINH

Some cases suggest using social networks lightly, alongside other means of communication.

Fear of losing image, losing connection

Trung Thanh (30 years old, marketing staff in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City) was shocked. On the evening of March 5, after coming home from a party, he opened Facebook to inform his friends that he had arrived home. He was shocked to see that his account had been logged out. Immediately after, messages from Zalo poured in.

"When I opened it, I saw messages from groups of friends and colleagues who were confused because they couldn't log into Facebook. Most of them were afraid that their accounts would be taken over. Some of them were afraid that if they lost Facebook, they would lose all their memories, photos, and friend lists... from many years of using this social network," he said. Some of them were also very worried because they had registered for a number of online seminars via Facebook.

After that, he tried to log in many times. When he entered the Instagram application, the new update could not be downloaded, his heart was pounding and his legs were shaking.

A while later, when he got back on Facebook, he felt relieved. He quickly checked his inbox for anything unusual and informed his friends that his account was fine.

A young person expressed concern on Zalo on the evening of March 5 about the Facebook outage that would affect his work - Photo: YEN TRINH

Not too worried about losing contact, but Ms. Bao Ngoc (25 years old, communications staff, living in Thu Duc City) is worried that her account will be hacked and her personal information will be exposed.

"I'm not too worried about communicating via Facebook, because in urgent cases, I can still make phone calls. This is a platform with billions of users, so I think it will be restored to normal, otherwise it will affect the economy ," she said.

Live slower , less "magical"

Mr. Le Phat (residing in Thu Duc City) confided: "After the Facebook incident last night, I suddenly realized that I need to live more slowly and adjust a few things."

According to him, relationships have long been established sometimes starting from social networks, and then having phone numbers to make friends and work. Sometimes, no phone number is needed.

"From now on, I will limit this and go back to the traditional way of getting each other's phone numbers...", he said. He said he will limit his time on Facebook, only "showing up" occasionally to let his friends know he is okay.

Strengthen real-life connections instead of constantly surfing social networks - Illustration: YEN TRINH

Mr. Phat shared: "Since Facebook came into existence, life has had many interesting changes, finding old friends, making new friends. There are strangers whose Facebook names we sometimes only know, and then consider it the only tool to contact."

This creates a lot of virtual friends, virtual life and pulls you away from real life.

Instead of taking care of his own work and himself, he noticed that he focused on taking care of his image online, hugging his phone to live with it. He jokingly said that when Facebook had a short problem, we panicked as if we had been away from Facebook for a long time, and missed it as if we missed... our lover.

Ms. Ngoc said that her Facebook account was hacked before and it took a month to get it back. "At that time, due to the nature of my work, I had to work and interact on the Facebook platform, so I was greatly affected," she said.

From then on, she thought about how to use social networks without being too dependent. She expressed: "I think I should not be too dependent on social networks, always have other options for myself. Note that you should not post sensitive images on social networks or too private messages."

Besides Facebook, she also uses communication through Zalo and Instagram applications.

Although we know Facebook is necessary and convenient, it can be seen that after this incident, many people have changed their thinking about how to use social networks.

As a food, eat in moderation.

Mr. Le Phat shared that he will slow down his life to look back on how he uses Facebook, so as not to become dependent. Besides, he will pay more attention to real life, friends and family.

"Social media is like food, eat just enough to be delicious and absorbing, eat too much will cause indigestion and many consequences," he said.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/sau-su-co-facebook-nhieu-nguoi-muon-bot-le-thuoc-mang-xa-hoi-20240306130722282.htm