http://www. time. com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877187,00. html
The above link will take you to, what i can only assume, is some kind of social commentary on how facebook has grown past the epidemic stage and into the just plain absurd. I, like many of the first generation of facebookers, still wish it hadn't grown to myspace standards where anyone and their mother can join (and my mother has, in fact, recently joined). Remember those days, when you had to have a legitimate college-associated email address to join? When you waited for your school to finally be accepted on facebook so you too could join and be cool? When you could link to people who were in your classes so, if you were like me, "accidentally" missed class on any particular day, you knew what chapters to read, or when to polish your final excuse as to why your paper wasn't ready. Those were the days.
Like most of you, I was recently tagged in several "25 Things You Didn't Know About Me" notes, and also like most of you, I wrote my own. The author of the afore mentioned "article," and i use that term very loosely, states that the facts people mention in their notes are stupid and not worth mentioning at all. At this point, I have to ask her, "what did you expect?" Are you looking for thought-provoking, painstakingly insightful, and altogether astonishing revelations? It's facebook. It's a social networking site where people can post pictures of the stupid things they do over various weekend adventures and assorted holiday breaks.
But, unlike the author, I found the hilarity in my friends' revelations. I found it amusing to learn that my friend hid in a box dressed as a dead person in order to scare somebody at a sleepover. I actually did LOL when i learned that a girl my friend punched in the vagina in kindergarten is now a lesbian. I all but peed in my pants when I read that another friend killed a bunny she tried to rescue because she rolled over on it while she was sleeping.
While I can appreciate the absurdity that comes with most, if not all, of the statements people proclaim, I have to wonder why the author of the article felt it was of absolute importance to comment on it. Does she not realize that her article is just as absurd? At no point did she herself reveal anything poignant or thought-provoking, which is what she asked of the facebookers she so fervently chastised. And at no point did she make any connection between these "25 Things..." notes and the waste of standard work days, other than to mention that collectively, about 800,000 hours were spent over the past week writing these notes. So why, I have to ask, does she care so much? If this is such an offense to everything she believes in, why doesn't she just cancel her account? Problem solved.
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