Betraying my high ideals

[sharplittleteeth]

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 .

Comments

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

i guess i 'll need to edit my relationship status now your there ;p

[a-carnal-mink.livejournal.com]

Ummah! Facebook drama! :)

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

And I love the subject of the email I get about it:
"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?"

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

hands you a note

do you wanna go out with me
pls check a box
yes [] no []

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

actually i should give that to a_carnal_mink and ask her to pass it to you ;p

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

a_carnal_mink: My friend andricongirl thinks you're really hot.
andricongirl: I do not!
a_carnal_mink: Do you wanna go out with her?
sharplittlteeth: Uh... *blushes* *runs away*

[a-carnal-mink.livejournal.com]

To andricongirl: Oh. My. God. He's TOTALLY into you, I can tell!

[drzero.livejournal.com]

Heh, frou_frou and I were discussing this thread and that her email from FB read "Tim says that the two of you are married." which just begged for a [drama]"Is this true!!!"[/drama]

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

I'm very disappointed in the options they give you. I wanted to say we're in an inverse-square relationship. Or say we're in a causal relationship, and watch comic misunderstandings ensue.

But I may have been reading too much XKCD.

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

yeah not very interesting options ;p

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.

[txxxpxx.livejournal.com]

Sure thing. I listed "It's complicated" only because the other options were so insipid. I got several comments asking if everything was alright with Mr Pxx.

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.

:)

[usekh.livejournal.com]

:(

[thorfinn]

.oO( !!! )

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

oh and you've recieved a parcel from Movember.
wondering, do they send you a fake mo, just in case you weren't successful growing one on your own :?

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

It's a prize for raising over $50. I'm pretty sure it's a razor.

I'm not sure if that's ironic, or simply practical.

[andricongirl.livejournal.com]

and i like the new networking idea

or should that be
;D

[drzero.livejournal.com]

Andricongirl!! Don't go mentioning :)'s competition like that! ;D is so inferior to :)! They didn't even have the idea first!...yeah.

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.

[sharplittlteeth.livejournal.com]

Bring it on!

Anyway, ;) is so this afternoon. All the kids have moved to Y/N? now. 1-bit social networking FTW!

[drzero.livejournal.com]

Well the kids will do anything the Shiny Things Channel (formerly MTV) will tell them is cool...or whatever the kids call it these days.

Oh did I tell you I got a rocking chair for my front porch?

[jan-event.livejournal.com]

I think each of the main networking sites has its place and purpose and Facebook is the best I've encountered for keeping up with friends - especially ones overseas. Because it tries to capture the whole of social existence, I can see what events people are attending, with whom, and then see the photos after.

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.

[blonde-vamp.livejournal.com]

*blush*
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