Don't Tread On Me
Stumbled across the following fascinating observation in a user comment at the end of this article about Facebook friendship:
Online friends are one demential and have to be treaded as such.
Thought-provoking, isn't it? Unlike the article, in fact, which was a rather shallow explication of social networking on Facebook. I've definitely read better critiques elsewhere. But at any rate, it didn't persuade me to sign up for a Facebook account. I remain Facebookless to this day, in spite of my real-life friends' repeated invites and perplexed queries as to why on earth I wouldn't join. The reasons are far too complicated to go into here (read: I can't be bothered right now), but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't a subject of a future post.
In the meantime, why not ponder what treading one demential friends might look like. Hey, it can't be any less entertaining than taking a quiz to figure out what Disney character you most resemble. (Yeah, sure you haven't done that.)
Online friends are one demential and have to be treaded as such.
Thought-provoking, isn't it? Unlike the article, in fact, which was a rather shallow explication of social networking on Facebook. I've definitely read better critiques elsewhere. But at any rate, it didn't persuade me to sign up for a Facebook account. I remain Facebookless to this day, in spite of my real-life friends' repeated invites and perplexed queries as to why on earth I wouldn't join. The reasons are far too complicated to go into here (read: I can't be bothered right now), but I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't a subject of a future post.
In the meantime, why not ponder what treading one demential friends might look like. Hey, it can't be any less entertaining than taking a quiz to figure out what Disney character you most resemble. (Yeah, sure you haven't done that.)
posted by grackyfrogg @ 4:12 PM
4 Comments:
At 9:50 PM ,
Becca said...
i am very literally laughing out loud on that one. Your post is sic! lol... ;) Oh, and um no i have yet to discover what disney character i most resemble. I have on the other hand asked oh wise facebook where i should live - it said seattle, and i am starting to see more and more the wisdom of that. Pretty sure it's all about the coffee. ;)
At 4:39 PM ,
Diane G said...
I'm another facebooker who has not done the disney character thing, nor any of those other "find outs," but I do have a true confession to make. I thought. at first, that the use of those words in your quote had to be something that only you English major-types could comprehend and that the reason I had no clue what it was all about is that, in my entire college career, I have had only one English class. :-P
At 9:12 PM ,
grackyfrogg said...
ok, so the funniest part of this is... i actually HAVE taken a quiz about what disney character i am! not on facebook, though. so maybe it's not actually a facebook quiz, but it sounds like it should be. :)
i'm silly, aren't i.
At 9:48 PM ,
Beth said...
Hahaha! :D That's an amazing quote. (I might have to post a link to this entry to my facebook page. ;) )
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