Betraying my high ideals
Nov. 21st, 2008 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I caved and joined Facebook.
Yes, it's a huge waste of time. Yes, I'm about three years behind the zeitgeist. And yes, I'm betraying my high ideals.
But beautiful women* begged me to join, and it would have been churlish to refuse.
Although I think it's a bad sign when I receive four friend invites without even announcing my presence, but only one comment on my (hopefully) humourous LJ post about Gentlemen's Moustache Duels.
I have a theory about social networking sites, that they devolve into lesser and lesser complexity - from the weeks-long discussions of USENET, to the daily postings of LJ, to the one-sentence updates of Twitter. So as we speak I'm gathering venture capital to launch the next big thing in social networking.
It's called ;), and it only lets you post emoticons.
* Well, woman. Well,
blonde_vamp .
Yes, it's a huge waste of time. Yes, I'm about three years behind the zeitgeist. And yes, I'm betraying my high ideals.
But beautiful women* begged me to join, and it would have been churlish to refuse.
Although I think it's a bad sign when I receive four friend invites without even announcing my presence, but only one comment on my (hopefully) humourous LJ post about Gentlemen's Moustache Duels.
I have a theory about social networking sites, that they devolve into lesser and lesser complexity - from the weeks-long discussions of USENET, to the daily postings of LJ, to the one-sentence updates of Twitter. So as we speak I'm gathering venture capital to launch the next big thing in social networking.
It's called ;), and it only lets you post emoticons.
* Well, woman. Well,
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Date: 2008-11-21 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 04:49 am (UTC)Ummah! Facebook drama! :)
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:25 am (UTC)"Jelli Bat said that you two are in a relationship..."
It has that wonderful whiff of high school gossip mongering about it. "Jelli Bat said that you two are in a relationship. Is it true? Huh?"
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:38 am (UTC)hands you a note
do you wanna go out with me
pls check a box
yes [] no []
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 05:44 am (UTC)andricongirl: I do not!
a_carnal_mink: Do you wanna go out with her?
sharplittlteeth: Uh... *blushes* *runs away*
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Date: 2008-11-21 07:31 am (UTC)To andricongirl: Oh. My. God. He's TOTALLY into you, I can tell!
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Date: 2008-11-21 07:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 05:29 am (UTC)But I may have been reading too much XKCD.
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:34 am (UTC)and anyway its facebook, comic misunderstanding will happen anyway.
just wait and see what happens if you happen to change something for fun.. much hilarity.
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Date: 2008-11-21 06:24 am (UTC)I wanted to respond, "Yeah sure. He looks much better with that stake through his heart" but...well....it's facebook & who knows where that might end.
:)
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Date: 2008-11-21 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 05:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-21 05:36 am (UTC)wondering, do they send you a fake mo, just in case you weren't successful growing one on your own :?
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Date: 2008-11-21 05:45 am (UTC)I'm not sure if that's ironic, or simply practical.
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Date: 2008-11-21 06:37 am (UTC)or should that be
;D
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Date: 2008-11-21 07:45 am (UTC)I think I may be the first person to attempt a flame war between two different fictional social networking sites. I'm sure there's a Scout merit badge for that.
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Date: 2008-11-21 07:52 am (UTC)Anyway, ;) is so this afternoon. All the kids have moved to Y/N? now. 1-bit social networking FTW!
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Date: 2008-11-21 08:11 am (UTC)Oh did I tell you I got a rocking chair for my front porch?
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:16 am (UTC)That said, I haven't had writing fun on Facebook like I did with these moustache stories and unless FB radically changes its purpose I never will - in the same way that MySpace is good for music and photos and, in my opinion, pretty shit for everything else.
So given that I'm on the other side of the world, I'm glad you have FB, but hope you keep writing on LJ.
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Date: 2008-11-21 10:41 am (UTC)ahem flattered indeed, but begging shmegging!
Really, you were just waiting for the right "invitation" (or rather, ridicule for not being on the latest "thang") ...& a lttile peer group pressure later & you totally caved & sold your soul to the devil!
Glad you caught up with the rest of us
I'll see you on the other side ...BWAHAHAHA