I would have thought that the creator of a social media website would have been a woman. How many men do you know are sitting at home thinking about facebook stalking their ex, or their new crush, or their old college roommate, or the girl they lost their virginity to, or their....well the list goes on, doesn't it? I mean we women openly discuss our tendency to facebook stalk. In fact, we like it, we like it a lot! Don't lie, girlfriends, you were stalking your high school rival when you saw my blog pop up and decided to stalk me instead. Its fine. Stalk me. I like it.
And it goes so far beyond the fun of stalking, you can spend hours and hours of mindless excitement building gardens, and raising farms, and popping bejeweled gems or playing poker. Who needs a clean house or exercise ANYWAY!!! (Speaking from personal experience only, no judgements, I swear)
We can show off our photography, our artwork, and our beautiful and talented kids (or cats). That truely is awesome.
We can make public political statements, post funny pictures that we've swiped from other people, get some great insight into what makes those people that we know currently, or knew at one point in time, tick, and walk hand in hand with people as they share everything from the birth of their child, their latest vacation, or the new miniskirt that they bought that day (ICK! ACK! YUK!). What an awesome forum. You can now know where I am at every moment of my life!!!! LUCKY YOU!!!
Its about seeing a video on youtube and being able to immediately post it to a friends wall, so you don't have to wait until they come to your house and watch it on your VHS....wait...DO YOU STILL HAVE A VHS???
I love inspired posts, with intention, quotes, and humor. I love positivity and self promotion. I love excitement for what is happening today and pride in your life.
What I don't appreciate about social media is when people use it for evil. This technology really is a superpower that should not be abused. I dislike the cryptic messages spouting anger and frustration about a person. I mean, you posted it so that person would see it, right? What ever happened to saying, "Hey, lets have a conversation about this problem. We can work it out in privacy." NO NO NO....instead it is pissing and moaning....WAAAAAAAH! I get it, though. I've been there. It is hard to avoid, plus the support and sympathy is really nice. I think there is always a funny and tactful way to post about your frustrations, though, I did learn this over time. If you can't do it, someone out there said "If you can't say anything nice, don't say it at all." (I should probably be a quieter person...)
I also HATE (HATE HATE HATE) the misspelled, text speak posts. BAH! HATE!!!!! Thats all.
What about when you want to delete a "friend" but you are scared of confrontation? You're tired of reading about their 500mile run in detail, how many reps they did at the gym, that their big toe has grown another 0.34cm, that they want to beat the *&$@^ out of that @&#%*, or they stole your most recent heartthrob and you think "HATE" everytime they post something....well, Facebook has a solution!!!! YAY! You can UNSUBSCRIBE??!!!!! Its like deleting them, but you aren't. This means you can occasionally stalk, but you don't have to see all 867 self portrait pictures they just posted in a matter of minutes, which makes you openly growl at your computer/ipad/Kindle fire. The stalking is on your terms. Novel idea.
All of a sudden it occurred to me, we have "Big Brother'd" ourselves. We saved the government from a lot of work.
Thank you. Mark Zuckerberg.
I love Facebook. It keeps me in touch, and gives me a voice. I will continue to try to use it for good and not evil.
Everyone have a safe and wonderful weekend! I am taking Bambi and Ricardo to the OC to visit Trixie...This might lead to another post over the weekend, we will see.
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