On Planet Facebook, compulsive and compulsory overshare of every aspect of one's life has become the norm. Part of the social contract.
Anything less marks you as a friendless hobo living in a cave, flinging poo at census workers and Amazon.com trendhunters: an illegal alien skulking around the halls of a High School from which there is no escape, and where gossip is the coin of the realm.
Fuck that.
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Why won't Sarah Palin Friend Us on Facebook?
Facebook attained the 500 million user mark this week, and Sarah Palin once again Facebooked an attack against an imaginary foe, namely the now-defunct JournoList. Anti-social non-networker Driftglass and his slightly more social colleague Blue Gal discuss why politics is less like a war and more like high school, and what we can do to win against the mean prom queens (Sarah Palin, Tucker Carlson) and the cheating jocks (Andrew Breitbart).
"O tempora! O mores!"
-- Cicero
3 comments:
friendless hobo living in a cave
Yep, that's me.
Not one of the 500 million, nor do I Tweet, Twit or Twat.
However, I will heartily defend the right of others to go online so as to sniff each other's biographical skid-marks indefinitely ... after all, it keeps them out of trouble. Ususally.
I do not Facebook, nor do I Tweet. I don't even own a cell phone. I may be the only Luddite IT worker in the world. (Software is the bomb, but I can't get my panties that wet about gadgets.)
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