If you asked 15 year old BUSH if he liked Facebook he would reply: You mean Myspace right? In this one case 15 year old BUSH was correct to think Myspace was cool. However with Myspace came the dawn of the social media feud. It wasn't the type of feud that involved a countless comment chain of people trying to out rage each other instead it was a text from your homeboy who was pissed because you moved him down your top 15 friends because decisions had to be made and the girl you liked had to move towards the top of your list. I almost forgot my favorite part about Myspace........ The hot fire flames playlist you could put together on your page and how your song meant something unique about you..... I still remember to this day logging on to my Myspace page just to listen to Its Me Snitches (which surprisingly has lost its luster today) Then around 17-18 you finally became cool enough (or in my case new fangled technology finally made it to the middle of nowhere) to get a Facebook. This new magical experiment of social media finally made it to my lap. I instantly started to love the fact that I could post whatever was on my mind and people could see it. It was intoxicating at first.........
Then came college and you joined the elite group of nerds who would be attending the same school as you in the fall and all the ridiculous questions they would post on the newly created Class of yada yada ya at the university of who cares. Looking at those kids post then became the intoxicating thing. It became who was going to post the most ridiculous or absurd thing first. Then halfway through 2012 you got your first friend request from your Aunt Thelma who lives too look at all the crazy shit you are doing at college. She suddenly has the access to your deepest darkest secrets..... The kegstand you did in the basement of some fraternity on campus or the fact you are in a relationship with some girl and now feels the immediate need to tell your mother who you have not told yet..... And then (much to my chagrin) the shit started to flow down hill suddenly every aunt you have, and even some you didn't know you had got on the book of faces and you had to accept them or they would tell your mom. "Why wont you accept Aunt So and So's friend request" became a main staple of my staple of mine and my mother's conversations.
This brings us to today's Facebook that has somehow become filled with social scientists and activists. If I see one more new friend that changes their profile picture to a France flag I may freak the hell out...... But I digress. The new groups of either the incredibly ignorant or the new found political theorists give me a good chuckle or two...... Wait but that means Facebook is fun.... And is something you always have to watch. Facebook is now like a train wreck waiting to happen every day. Like a great clip of reality T.V. you have to watch even if you know its ridiculous. At the end of the day that beautiful genius Zuckerberg has us all eating out of his hand like hungry little piggies. Seriously the guy has created a 24-7 reality t.v. network and I for one hate that I cant get enough.
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