January 30th: A Day of Deletion
I mentioned this nearly a week ago. In case you’ve forgotten. Today is the day.
In other news. There’s a new Social Networking site many people are adopting called Get a First Life. It already has 6.5 billion members (trust me, ALL of your friends already use it)!
And now for something entirely different…
The “Get A First Life”page is hilarious, yet so true.
It’s pretty amazing how humans are so capable of crawling into shells like MySpace. These sites deem themselves social networking sites but, in all reality, they’re quite the opposite. I’ve seen the phenomenon first hand with my family - where they stare into CRTs typing God knows what, looking at pictures, and basically ignoring life in actual motion. Television was the first robber of real, bona fide quality time, the internet itself was the next, and now the wicked step-child of the internet has arisen. There are times when I do veg out looking at what amounts to nothing on the internet, but I do try to produce while I’m on. I’m not always successful, but I’m trying. I’m not so sure all the self-obsessed surveys and vapid bulletins construe meaningful production. However, I do see these sites as a decent way of, at the very least, keeping up with family and friends - especially for those of us (those many, many of us) that are pretty terrible at staying in touch.
i love self-obsessed survey! :P
& you’re talking shit about my two favourite pastimes- TV & internet!
Maybe i DO need to get a life…
Hah, I’m quite late on this one, but what the heck- Myspace is not the devil. I spend a lot of time-perhaps too much-on it, but it’s a fantastic way for me to find family, find people I used to go to school with, and an A-M-A-Z-I-N-G way to find bands. Yeah, yeah, “Use last.fm” and all that, but you know what? Myspace is a radio where you get to make the station yourself. It’s fantastic! Up and coming bands now have a spectacular way to present themselves to the world and get fans at faster rates. I think its wonderful. Also, parents tend to think that their kids are going to get kidnapped and whatnot if they use myspace, but the truth is, if your kids weren’t so retarded, they wouldn’t GET kidnapped. To quote a conversation last night, Kim: “…Haha, Myspace is where pedophiles go to find kids!” Me: “No, myspace is where stupid kids go to find pedophiles.”
I see nothing wrong with getting a social networking life, as long as you keep your real one as well.
Keep it real!
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