On principle alone I am boycotting facebook. It has become a brothel and a breeding ground for rampant stupidity and immaturity and I will have nothing to do with it! One realizes that when she has a sheep thrown at her or when she sees others joining a group that promotes the glorification of the neckwear of a certain person as the highlight of one's existence; she realizes the inane pointlessness of it all.
Who cares if you "buy" me an "egg" and it "hatches" to become a "tiger"? Who cares if you can vote on someone's profile how hot they are? Who cares about the "birthday cupcake" that is really just a .jpg file that they attach to someone's profile as a "gift" from you bought by linking your credit card online to a billion-person-networking website that most likely gets hacked multiple times a day by people in multiple countries around the globe. I don't care if people compare me to other people and find me to be "most popular" or "most kissable"... and I don't care about seeing how people have re-arranged your magnetic words to make some profound(ly stupid) phrase on your profile. And then, on top of that, I must wade through (and be constantly accosted by) all of these "applications" that I loathe so much just to get to the ONE PART of someone's profile that I want so that I can leave them a message or contact them. I'm sure there's a lawsuit in there somewhere....
Whenever I log on, I feel like I'm being dumbed down each time. The entire purpose of Facebook (at least for me in the beginning) has been prostituted and then massacred. Sure, I'd love to look at your pictures of your engagement! I'd love to get a message from you or have you comment on my site or on one of my pictures but that's about as far as I go. So, from now on if my friends would like to contact me and get any sort of significant response, they have do do it through HERE!
I assured them that if they were ANYTHING like me they would instantly see that Blogger is a more mature and purposeful site that isn't clogged like Middle Schooler's pores with people who seek only to propagate their lives in what feels more and more like a Disney TV show every day.
So, in essence, I've been swayed, won over, converted, refitted, reformed, transformed, corrected AND fixed. Congratulations, blogger, on another victory!
2 comments:
Here's the thing you'll need to become accustomed to - you'll make what (in your mind) is a very profound or enlightening or funny post on your Blog and you might get only a very few comments (or none) where, with Facebook, you could put anything stupid or inane out there and you could get a dozen "kudos" or "thumbs up".
Keep in mind that your blog posts are going to take more time and intentionality of you and the same is required of your readers so don't feel bad if every one doesn't get a lot of comments. And don't surrender to the desire for the "cheap affirmation" that comes from the MySpace, Facebook or Xanga sites - it's like saying the cashier at the supermarket must like you because she gave you some coupons on the back of your sales receipt!
You have a great ability to express yourself in writing and I enjoy reading about your life. Remember, once you write it, it's out there so be judicious in your words!
Love - Dad
Also, you need to notify people if you post something new (like I do) because people forget to check.
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