if you know me, you know i am not a huge facebook fan.
i find it pointless outside of stalking, although i will admit to indulging in it every once and a while in order to see what other people are up to. i can do this because many of my acquaintances lay their lives pretty much bare on facebook, if not literally than with little updates or additions or subtractions that are subtle gestures of how they are currently feeling with life.
in a relationship? just broken up? got engaged? got a job? accepted to a school? moved to a new networ... i mean, city?
i'm a sucker enough for post-modernist fluff in that i can sometimes see through my social networking puritanical streak and actually find something kind of artistic within the jumbled mass of graffiti walls and scrabulous games.
i usually do that by reading status updates. i find it fascinating sometimes to just scroll through a page or two of people's status updates. in essence it is a persons desire to connect and share with those around them. it's what's engaging your time and thoughts at the moment, whether expressed literally or obtusely, without pretensions because if that were the case you probably aren't bothering to update your status at all.
it's an exercise often participated in with so much familiarity and comfort that people really let their internet guards down and honestly update a thin slice of their lives into it. i just find it amazing how accurate status updates seem to be, in many cases more real than people are when you see them in person.
reading status updates is kind of like being able to close your eyes and hear the thoughts of all your friends in your head.
it's also probably why i refuse to do it myself, haha
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yea, haha, i was just going to say i never ever have status updates.
i change my status sometimes if something new is happening. Same goes with on msn, then people write me messages and we start talking about stuff.
Like on MSN i changed my name to Steph - mt st. louie sat, and then my buddy messages me and was like hey i'm going there too on sat. So now we're going to meet up and we discussed the best places to get discounted tickets etc. Its good to break the ice and start chatting with ppl you dont regularly talk to.
Or you can put updates like "looking for a job" Its like free advertising without being intrusive. I helped a couple people find some job hook ups (dont know if they actually got hired) using msn hahaha.
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