BikeLizard

BikeLizard
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday
April 12
Title
Clerk
Company
Unnamed
Bio
Young. Female. Poor. Right-leaning but confused. Opinionated. Looking to sharpen my writing skills for college.

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Salon.com
DECEMBER 22, 2009 12:34PM

It's Been Fake, FaceBook. Goodbye!

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On FaceBook I don't: chat; play farmville; quiz myself or post photos because they would appear to be a time loop.  Long correspondences with lost aquaintances are beyond my chatting skills.  Though the honesty boxes of certain "friends" beckon, I refrain.  Moreover, I judge people who post constant updates and pictures.

What I do is stare at the newsfeed for about two minutes a day, while I judge friends posts as mundane, cackle at entire pages of farmville generated by one user, and generally sit on my throne of non participation.  That is the worst kind of frivolity: Seeking out others' behavior to mock it, and I'll have no more of it.

I am not an active Facebook user.  I never sent any mean messages, or even posted a photo, but I did not like the daily excuse to ridicule people I barely know.  Moreover, there were photos in which I was obviously drunk, and I proclaimed my love for beer.  In the long run, I'd rather contact my friends by phone, and not risk a co worker or boss seeing something potentially embarassing.  

It's been fake, Facebook.  Goodbye.

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Smart move. For a century, children feared things going on their 'permanent record.' Just about the time they forgot about this, they started creating their own, public, permanent records with stuff way more incriminating then anything a school administrator could imagine.