If you haven’t done this, go ahead. Try it.
Just take the Lollipop.
Did you do it? You’re
horrified aren’t you. If you’re not a little
freaked out, something’s wrong with you.
No one should enjoy being virtually stalked by Igor in a
wife-beater. Feel like swearing off Facebook
til the bad taste in your mouth goes away?
Isn’t it bizarre that this Facebook app is actually being used to discourage
Facebook. Today’s culture is split in
two different social pressures. One sees
Facebook as a pop culture icon. People
expect you to have a Facebook, to add them as friends and post half-hearted
messages on their wall. The other half
sees Facebook as a waste of time and a privacy infraction. No one wants to seem like the kid that spends
all day on the computer refreshing the page in hopes someone cares. These conflicting pressures come out in the
form of creations used by Facebook to destroy Facebook. Burger King’s social media campaign used Facebook
to encourage members to actually delete friends in order to get free
Whoopers. Eventually Facebook declared
the campaign was using social media to kill social media and forced it to be
pulled. The son kills the father, Freud
was right yet again.
I always feel that pressure. I have 155 friends on FB and very few of them are very close friends in real life. I update once a month but some of my friends update daily (some hourly). As a result I feel more like a stalker than a stalkee. I usually find myself not remembering information about other people when I interact with them in the real world so they aren't creeped out. I just want to tell them, "I know you were in California last week because I only have 155 friends and you post all the time." But I don't, instead I'll totally act like I check FB once a month because I think that makes me cooler. Great post! I hope you explore this issue more, I think it is fascinating.
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