I do not understand the Facebook. When I log in to the Facebook I am besieged by notices of what my Facebook friends are up to. There is Jennifer. Jennifer has compared me to a beagle, her grandmother and a guy named Trevor. I am in the middle. The beagle is slightly ahead. Trevor is shit, apparently. Poor Trevor.
Then there is Sara. Sara did not feel the earthquake in China. I did not know Sara was in China, but am glad she did not feel the rubbing of the plates.
Lauren wants you to know she is a fan of Shane's Rib Shack, an asshat company told to advertise on Facebook by an asshattier marketing company and their asshattiest mobile partner (mine). "Facebook is how you market online to your sweet spot," is how the conversation probably went. And by probably I mean actually.
Beck's Beer is offering a chance to win a BecksBeer.com speaker tower. It will go nicely with my Budweiser inflatable chair, Labatt's Blue reading lamp, and Corona cooler. Yay. Yay for beer stuff.
Someone I barely know is now friends with someone I do not know at all. This is supposed to mean something to me, apparently, except all it means to me is that I still do not have donuts. Which sucks.
Jennifer wrote "yes" on someone else's wall. Writing on walls got me into trouble in 2nd grade once. Now I do not write on them.
And I was poked some way. Not in a good way.
The Facebook is for shit.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
About Me
- AcridSheep
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- Violates the edicts of Leviticus through shellfish.
3 comments:
This was a wonderful writeup, Acrid. Someone asked me if i did a guest post for your site because i just don't get Facebook at all.
Under the guise of becoming more aware of the Web 2.0-stuff, I decided to sign up and just check it out. (Selecting an alias from the myriad options was the most interesting part of the process) I signed up and invited the handful of other people i knew that might be on there. I looked around for 10 minutes and thought "this seems awfully stupid". If i want to keep in touch with people i have fairly good options already: phone, email, IM.... I even read friends' twitters every now and then.
But I just see no value in facebook whatsoever. In less than 24 hours I "cancelled" my account and never looked back. I guess I'm just getting old - but even my almost 10 year younger brother doesn't think much of it.
Twitter is probably slightly dumber, even.
I agree that twitter is insanely stupid as well.
But...
I do like seeing what my friends are doing, especially when they're on vacation for a couple of weeks. You get a "somewhat realtime" feel for what's going on without them having to disrupt their time away from you calling or IMing.
I feel bad saying I like the twitter thing - but I do like seeing them from others. There's no part of me that would ever actually twitter... I don't like myself enough to do that.
Post a Comment