Social Networking Websites
The Internet is a funny thing. People who are shy (or otherwise socially inept) can claim to be (a real-life pimp, beautiful, etc.) and own many things they don't really have, (a gold mansion and a rocket car) creating an impressive "life" for themselves without ever having to show and prove. On social networking sites (BlackPlanet, Myspace, Tagged, Facebook etc.), the people who create such a life from scratch will do something like this:
Exhibit A:
"Welcome to my page. Please don't bother me..."
Yeah I know, WTF right? What...are...you...doing here if you don't want people to see and talk to you? Do these people think people will steal your one pic? Get the fuck outta here with that! Go die somewhere.
In a profile, you include some words about you, your likes, dislikes, hopes and dreams, etc. But for people like this you have be their friends in order to see anything resembling that. Yeah, I'm not that interested in seeing what you have to say. The wild thing about this is that while they get to remain virtually unknown, they demand to know all about you!
Another key component for social networking sites are pictures. Anybody with real online experience knows that if you don't have a picture, no one is going to show you any love! So what do you do if you're too lazy to take pics like everybody else? You do this:
Exhibit B:
A nice picture of a human being on a social networking site...
Folks, I know this is a shock, but it's 2008. If you don't have pics or can't afford to get pics taken, you have absolutely NO business being online! You can buy throwaway digital cameras for less than $20 these days; there is no excuse!
I'm not trying to discern who has a right to be on these type of web sites, but if you're a married man looking to get you an on-the-side smash, or if you're a married female trying to get some male "attention", saying you're looking for "friends" (Internet code for booty call), then you have the nerve to make a list of physical features said friend is required to have (example: he must be 6' or taller, cut, attractive, etc.), get the hell offline! If the person is only going to be a friend, what do you care if the person is male or female, good to look at or blindingly ugly? Looks and smells like a booty call to me; just say that's what's you're looking for. I do not want to have to explain to the crazy-ass husband, boyfriend, or possessive friend with benefits you "forgot" to tell me about why I have your number!
Exhibit C:
An attention whore being observed out in the wild
The lesson to learn here is to always be truthful about why you're here; if you feel at any point that you need to lie, you're probably doing wrong in the first place.
Exhibit A:
"Welcome to my page. Please don't bother me..."
Yeah I know, WTF right? What...are...you...doing here if you don't want people to see and talk to you? Do these people think people will steal your one pic? Get the fuck outta here with that! Go die somewhere.
In a profile, you include some words about you, your likes, dislikes, hopes and dreams, etc. But for people like this you have be their friends in order to see anything resembling that. Yeah, I'm not that interested in seeing what you have to say. The wild thing about this is that while they get to remain virtually unknown, they demand to know all about you!
Another key component for social networking sites are pictures. Anybody with real online experience knows that if you don't have a picture, no one is going to show you any love! So what do you do if you're too lazy to take pics like everybody else? You do this:
Exhibit B:
A nice picture of a human being on a social networking site...
Folks, I know this is a shock, but it's 2008. If you don't have pics or can't afford to get pics taken, you have absolutely NO business being online! You can buy throwaway digital cameras for less than $20 these days; there is no excuse!
I'm not trying to discern who has a right to be on these type of web sites, but if you're a married man looking to get you an on-the-side smash, or if you're a married female trying to get some male "attention", saying you're looking for "friends" (Internet code for booty call), then you have the nerve to make a list of physical features said friend is required to have (example: he must be 6' or taller, cut, attractive, etc.), get the hell offline! If the person is only going to be a friend, what do you care if the person is male or female, good to look at or blindingly ugly? Looks and smells like a booty call to me; just say that's what's you're looking for. I do not want to have to explain to the crazy-ass husband, boyfriend, or possessive friend with benefits you "forgot" to tell me about why I have your number!
Exhibit C:
An attention whore being observed out in the wild
The lesson to learn here is to always be truthful about why you're here; if you feel at any point that you need to lie, you're probably doing wrong in the first place.
Labels: lie, social hermit
posted by Chosen One at
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