You, and facebook you, suck.
How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendship
Via the Wall Street Journal
This article resonates along a nerve I've noticed struck in increasingly more and more people, one of those people most importantly, being me.
I hate having to filter through all of the stupid quizzes and other garbage people waste their time with online. If you have an interesting article/music/any other content which is thought provoking, by all means share it.
Nobody cares what you are eating, nobody cares how much you love your friends, nobody cares how many cups of coffee you need to drink to get your day started. If you're bored then you're boring, face it and do something interesting, and even then, please don't bother telling me about it.
I'm often struck dumb by the type of person who goes on vacation or out for some "wild night" and decides to chronicle it like they're Ansel Adams in Yosemite at daybreak.
It's become more important to create the impression that one is interesting and exciting and having fun than it is to lead an interesting and exciting life and actually be fun. This is the social media equivalent of "keeping up with the Joneses," and smacks of lameness.
Don't be that guy or girl with an insanely worthless number of kissy faced or peace sign pictures, rather, focus on having fun, and leading an interesting life. There will be plenty of people interested in taking your picture when you get to that point, let them take care of it.
Via the Wall Street Journal
This article resonates along a nerve I've noticed struck in increasingly more and more people, one of those people most importantly, being me.
This brings us to our first dilemma: Amidst all this heightened chatter, we're not saying much that's interesting, folks. Rather, we're breaking a cardinal rule of companionship: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thy Friends.
"It's called narcissism," says Matt Brown, a 36-year-old business-development manager for a chain of hair salons and spas in Seattle. He's particularly annoyed by a friend who works at an auto dealership who tweets every time he sells a car, a married couple who bicker on Facebook's public walls and another couple so "mooshy-gooshy" they sit in the same room of their house posting love messages to each other for all to see. "Why is your life so frickin' important and entertaining that we need to know?" Mr. Brown says.
I hate having to filter through all of the stupid quizzes and other garbage people waste their time with online. If you have an interesting article/music/any other content which is thought provoking, by all means share it.
Nobody cares what you are eating, nobody cares how much you love your friends, nobody cares how many cups of coffee you need to drink to get your day started. If you're bored then you're boring, face it and do something interesting, and even then, please don't bother telling me about it.
I'm often struck dumb by the type of person who goes on vacation or out for some "wild night" and decides to chronicle it like they're Ansel Adams in Yosemite at daybreak.
It's become more important to create the impression that one is interesting and exciting and having fun than it is to lead an interesting and exciting life and actually be fun. This is the social media equivalent of "keeping up with the Joneses," and smacks of lameness.
Don't be that guy or girl with an insanely worthless number of kissy faced or peace sign pictures, rather, focus on having fun, and leading an interesting life. There will be plenty of people interested in taking your picture when you get to that point, let them take care of it.
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