This is me giving the finger to Facebook
I was a member of CrackBook long enough to get hooked into its obsessive and stalkeresque dissemination of information.
Today I deleted my account and sent a wee note to a few people indicating my leave of KissMyA**Book and have since received one too many MAHA ARE YOU OKAY WHERE ARE YOU ORLY’S YELLING AT ROGER’S text messages. I love my friends. They are worried. I understand.
For the record, I am okay. I am merely no longer a member of SqueezeMyHeartBook. I am refusing to become a further slave to its brand of too-much-information. I don’t want to see whose Dating who, whose Broken Up with who, who Married who and whose Hooked Up with who and that the Status of someone is set to “[insert name] is Marineland”.
Moreover, I don’t want to see happy smiling faces when I want to smash my face into my computer screen because that would feel better than just sitting here and watching other people’s lives all glittery and shiny and new. “Maha is bitter and sad and in anguish but she will f*#@ing deal with it because that’s what this sh*ttastic life is: it’s to Deal With It”.
‘Witty Lady With Blackberry’, K, mentioned earlier that there’s a whole new world of rejection. She aptly titled it “e-rejection”: When you ask someone to be your friend and they e-reject your sorry a**. It’s traumatic enough to live, we really don’t need to add yet another avenue by which others may reject us. And being "e-rejected" (© K) by way of someone not adding you to their Friends or limiting your profile are among, but not the only ways of being e-rejected. I've not yet faced e-rejection and I've decided that I don't plan on hanging out and watching for it by constantly clicking the Refresh button at the top of my screen.
Maybe in ten years, if WherePeopleOnlyPostSkinnyShotsBook is still around, I’ll reactivate my account. Until then, to YourLifeSuxComparedToMineBook, I say: SUCK ON THIS.
And to those of you who made it through the rant and have come down this far, please let me recommend to you the most beautiful CD I have heard in months: “Our Lady of Broken Souls” by Marie-Josee Houle, a local cabaret genius who will knock your ugly socks off. Really…she’s who you should be listening to if you too have left A**Book today.
“Maha is going to soak in the tub and eat milk chocolate covered almonds”.
Today I deleted my account and sent a wee note to a few people indicating my leave of KissMyA**Book and have since received one too many MAHA ARE YOU OKAY WHERE ARE YOU ORLY’S YELLING AT ROGER’S text messages. I love my friends. They are worried. I understand.
For the record, I am okay. I am merely no longer a member of SqueezeMyHeartBook. I am refusing to become a further slave to its brand of too-much-information. I don’t want to see whose Dating who, whose Broken Up with who, who Married who and whose Hooked Up with who and that the Status of someone is set to “[insert name] is Marineland”.
Moreover, I don’t want to see happy smiling faces when I want to smash my face into my computer screen because that would feel better than just sitting here and watching other people’s lives all glittery and shiny and new. “Maha is bitter and sad and in anguish but she will f*#@ing deal with it because that’s what this sh*ttastic life is: it’s to Deal With It”.
‘Witty Lady With Blackberry’, K, mentioned earlier that there’s a whole new world of rejection. She aptly titled it “e-rejection”: When you ask someone to be your friend and they e-reject you
Maybe in ten years, if WherePeopleOnlyPostSkinnyShotsBook is still around, I’ll reactivate my account. Until then, to YourLifeSuxComparedToMineBook, I say: SUCK ON THIS.
And to those of you who made it through the rant and have come down this far, please let me recommend to you the most beautiful CD I have heard in months: “Our Lady of Broken Souls” by Marie-Josee Houle, a local cabaret genius who will knock your ugly socks off. Really…she’s who you should be listening to if you too have left A**Book today.
“Maha is going to soak in the tub and eat milk chocolate covered almonds”.
Labels: Rant
posted by just a girl at 10:29 PM
8 Comments:
Quitting Facebook? Madness! Facebook has yet to make any sort of tangible positive benefit on my life but is, nonetheless, a top-ranked time-suck for me. I can't imagine shirking responsibilities without it.
Now THAT is exercising real control.. a lot tougher than even cutting your hair and less destructive too..
YAY - I've been promoting a "Facebook Boycott" for weeks now, trying to convince everyone of the evils that lurk there.
It's so nice to know that there are others out there who haven't got so caught up in the madness. (Even my MOM knows about facebook.)
I found this link on another website the other day and having been using it to promote my cause that Facebook Sucks and is SCARY:
http://www.albumoftheday.com/facebook/
Well, I haven't given up the e-StalkingBook yet. But I waaaas tempted to follow your lead
ha ha! KissMyA**Book? AWESOME! Hilarious, that's hilarious! I was on there for a couple of months and then it just got creepy and lame. People I didn't care about were annoying me.I Don't CARE. But I guess that's also totally e-rejection like "K" says.
Facebook sucked and I cancelled my account for like two days.
If I knew you were on THERE I would have stalked you. I can't believe you didn't tell us. I thought you told us everything, lady!
maria
I never figured out the whole facebook/myspace thing. I have profiles in both but I hear crickets from the inactivity when I load either page. I stare at the unchanged page and can't be arsed to venture beyond browsing music or videos.
Maybe it's a blonde thing.
I tell myself I should be happy with this blandness because I hear people get addicted to these sites and I think "How is this possible?"
...but still I wonder what gene I'm missing that I just don't 'get' the whole myspace/facebook thing.
I never even bothered to join. I have so many people to take care of on a daily basis and with whom I would rather spend time.
The internet is a place I use to unwind and relax and the last thing I would wish is to add another layer of complication and ways for people to reach me. I stress out, as it is, about responding to email! My daughter has a Facebook account and I believe it is exactly as Chestery said, a time suck.
Happy you're happy you're off!
Colleen
Maha, who on EARTH talked Facebook up to such an extent that you would even consider trying it?! They must be flogged. With string cheese.
I keep hearing of Facebook and I keep saying to myself "this too shall pass."
Didn't everyone have enough of high school the first go 'round?
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