Jared J. H. CatapanoI'm on the Facebook, I'm on the Myspace, I'm on the Bebo...
July 25th 2008 01:31
Ahhh social networking sites. Is there anything else that has changed us as a species in such a short period of time?
I'm on 3 of them, have been for years, but I never really took it upon myself to ingrain them into my very being.
Sure, I like to 'share' a little bit, here and there, sometimes too much, and social networking sites give you almost blissful anonimity, or at the very least, the fact that you aren't face to face with someone when you boast or claim or show off. No one is there to shoot you down.
At least not right off the bat.
I'll be truthful, I go on these sites, and keep going back to them, to see how my old 'friends' are doing. My new friends, the ones I actually SEE in real life and communicate with in REALITY, I don't really need to keep up with them on the SN sites. THey are only a phonecall away.
It's the people I went to school with, the people I hated while at school, the girls I had crushes on, the guys who I thought we're the cool ones gettin all the sex and hanging with the girls I had crushes on, THESE are the people I want to spy on. I want to see if they are happy. Or even better, I want to see if they are SAD.
I want to see if they have fucked thier lives up.
Where did this sick, voyeuristic-sadism come from?
We really are a fucked up species if we get off on the misfortune of others, and if you say you don't, well I hope you don't mind if I call you a LIAR. Because you are.
So we're fucked up, and the internet has given us a flood of information that makes us more fucked up. Info that let's us explore our desires, even if they are only on a screen.
Is this a good or a bad thing?
I think SN sites are just show-off showcases for humans. Look at my little neat flaming shit.
Look at my kids, aren't they cute?
Check out where I went for a HOLIDAY! Bet YOU'VE never been there! I'm so much more enlightened than you now!
I know so much more, I am so more CLUED in to the workings of the human soul than you!
What about you? What have you been doing?
Ohhh, working, is that all? Writing? Oh yeah, what cha been writing? Nah, never heard of it. Play guitar huh? What can you play? Nope, haven't heard of that band.
Is that a picture of you're kids? It looks like you're hand with a splatter of mayonaise in it.
Ohhh....you're still fucked in the head, just like you we're at school.
I'm on 3 of them, have been for years, but I never really took it upon myself to ingrain them into my very being.
Sure, I like to 'share' a little bit, here and there, sometimes too much, and social networking sites give you almost blissful anonimity, or at the very least, the fact that you aren't face to face with someone when you boast or claim or show off. No one is there to shoot you down.
At least not right off the bat.
I'll be truthful, I go on these sites, and keep going back to them, to see how my old 'friends' are doing. My new friends, the ones I actually SEE in real life and communicate with in REALITY, I don't really need to keep up with them on the SN sites. THey are only a phonecall away.
I want to see if they have fucked thier lives up.
Where did this sick, voyeuristic-sadism come from?
We really are a fucked up species if we get off on the misfortune of others, and if you say you don't, well I hope you don't mind if I call you a LIAR. Because you are.
So we're fucked up, and the internet has given us a flood of information that makes us more fucked up. Info that let's us explore our desires, even if they are only on a screen.
Is this a good or a bad thing?
I think SN sites are just show-off showcases for humans. Look at my little neat flaming shit.
Check out where I went for a HOLIDAY! Bet YOU'VE never been there! I'm so much more enlightened than you now!
I know so much more, I am so more CLUED in to the workings of the human soul than you!
What about you? What have you been doing?
Ohhh, working, is that all? Writing? Oh yeah, what cha been writing? Nah, never heard of it. Play guitar huh? What can you play? Nope, haven't heard of that band.
Is that a picture of you're kids? It looks like you're hand with a splatter of mayonaise in it.
Ohhh....you're still fucked in the head, just like you we're at school.
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