In the past few days I have been seriously reconsidering my participation on Facebook. It's been a long time coming, but I guess I just realized how ... insane that thing is. Facebook has become a dumpster for our lives that we just keep feeding, throwing the fat that we trim off our lives into it. Go ahead, go look at your feed. Notice how 98% of it is all white noise? Nonsense? Meaningless gibberish? Beyond the "I'm eating sausage lol" comments, most of the stuff people post about themselves is literal waste.
Chances are, if you are my friend on Facebook, I have your feed hidden. Why did I add you as a friend then? Because I would feel guilty rejecting you, just like I feel guilty in unfriending you.
I use Facebook as a way to gain popularity. There - I said it! And it feels good to be honest about it. In fact, many people post something witty in attempts to be liked by people they have never met, and most fail at it. Not saying I never do, but I make a small, unlivable wage by being funny, so I kind of am bestowing those powers onto myself to determine what is and what is not "Funny". And trust me, dude ... you are not it.
My goal now is to get back to using Facebook for what I feel it's good for - keeping in touch with friends. For some reason there are people out there that want to be in touch with me, and see what I'm doing, and laugh at me for various things, so I ask that you just follow me on Twitter (@majorjipp) - it's just easier that way.
Look, it's not you, it's me. I'm the crazy one. I'm the one who just kind of wants to close off a bit of the bathrobe. So if you go looking for me and I'm not in your feed, please don't feel bad. It really isn't anything personal. Plus, I'd bet that many of my "friends" have hidden me already - we have just maintained our FB friendship out of fear of insulting the other. Why do we do that? Why are we so afraid to deny someone entry into our lives? So I doubt anyone really will know or care about this. But I'll feel a bit less creeped.
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also makes me want to barf at how much money is about to change hands when they go stock-public. i'm all for people making their money, but now a bunch of moochers get to make it twice over off of pure frenzy - of me reading a bunch of sometimes something with ads on the side?!. more power to them, i guess.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Jipper. The worst ones are the especially vague comments designed to elicit a reaction, like "Can't handle it anymore" or "I'm so excited!". I hate everyone.
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