Yeah, I'm here with the Facebook ranting once again. I guess it's just the fact that the longer you've been in a certain community, the more you have to bitch about with it. The thing I have on mind right now is the whole privacy thing everyone is (well, sort of always has been) bitching about- privacy.
Since the dawn of ages man has always had some kind of tendency to keep things to himself. Maybe in fears of rejection from other groups or simply for personal reasons or for keeping a sound reputation. There are some, however, who have nothing to hide from the world and could just as easily tell you that they achieve great sexual gratification from seeing cow udders than they could with any other dark secret they may have. For those who don't possess such a trait, however, there's Facebook.
Facebook is "a place for friends," as the website designers so tastefully describe it. What do friends do? They share things. They tell each other personal experiences, tastes, what happened to them that day or what their perceptions are on why the sky is blue or why the hell do people still like Madonna.
Now, how many friends do you actually have in real life, not counting the ones you've added on Facebook (and God knows how many you could have added simply because of their 'mutual friend' count)? If you're a fairly social kid, maybe a good round ten. These are the ones whom you talk with all the time, constantly hang around with and can always relate their opinions and perspectives to yours. You get along well and you're all happy with it. They're your Facebook besties.
No more should be necessary, but maybe there's another group you occasionally hang around with when your true ones are nowhere to be found, and you might have a few personal experiences with them as well, but none so much as cherishing as your true ones. Maybe you added them on Facebook as well even though you have little to nothing in common with them.
My point is, why add more? We've transformed into a society that tries to connect with nearly everyone we find online, what with the uprising of social networking sites like Facebook, eHarmony and IMVU whose goals are to connect people with each other romantically or to find their high school friends, and at the same time we've become a bunch of bitchy simpletons who still want their privacy respected.
How the fuck can I expect you to not tell me something personal when the other 400 people and I are friends with you on Facebook, yet at the same time you harp daily about how awesome your day was with so-and-so or what kind of mustard was in your Subway sandwich two days ago? With the number of statuses you write in a day I could compile your biography if you continued to do it for just the next three years. Yet despite this, Facebook keeps upgrading and developing their privacy policy restrictions, when people could just stop accepting friend requests for people they don't know.
I solve complications in everyone's bullshit problems once again.
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