points of information pertaining to said self concealment...
1. i detest social networking sites.
2. there is a reason why i have an online alter ego.
3. i look back on my teenage years in school with bitter loathing.
4. in the last few hours i registered with facebook.
the idealist in me wants to be able to say it is a nice to have another way to say 'hi' to people i like and love. but the cynical realist in me is placing a bet i last a week.
yet, i will be the first to raise my hand and say i was wrong and that online social networking is the apex of community building and a masterstroke in the evolution of human bonding, if i should find that to be the case.
but frankly, i like refuges. harbours. safe places. if i wanted to exist in an environment in which one's profile is primarily defined by the number of one's 'friends', rather than the quality, i would indeed don my uniform and in the words of frankie avalon, turn in my teasin' comb and go back to high school...
5. i was just offered the chance to "pimp my profile" with glitter.
LB,x
hey babe.
ReplyDeleteThe weird thing about facebook is that it doesn't list the number of friends you have on the front page... and that's why I like it! it's NOT a popularity contest.
sorry you got spammed with the whole 'pimp my profile' thing. that's just SOOO MySpace/SOOO 1995. ;o)
(get rid of that Top Friends application! horrid!)
xxx