There is irony in this post. See if you can read between the lines.
Who would have thought Facebook would make billions? Not me. it's a simple enough idea, one that underlines the inanity in us all - Facebook let's you compartmentalize your life into little proscribed chunks of information - it's made pixels of people and people seem happy to be belittled. Have you noticed? Oh, you're on Facebook too?
So is everyone. Well, in some places. Not that location matters much on Facebook, or time. When old schoolmates that you haven't thought of in fifteen years except when you see someone who reminds you of them once in a long while somewhere in Asia of iets gets in touch, then you know that things are connected. But are they? Facebook communication has reduced emails to one liners with a handy conversation format that let's you simulate realtime talk. First loves swap an email or two, and thereafter, we watch each others' status updates. That’s not friendship! Why all this marketing euphemism?
Facebook approximates reality the same way that the age of enlightenment sliced it up - with classification.
you have "friends", "events" (even if you don't go), wish lists (even if they don't come true), social time lines (even if you lied - and to be honest, most of us with half a pea for a brain did, because the limits of the information fields are so severe that we got bored with the truth), and gifts (that make the producers all their bloody money!). These are not real words - these are not real lies - I mean, lives. We’ve mimicked our humanity online. It’s a crying shame, coz its draining businesses everywhere as their employees while away the day translating their lives into little applications.
Funny thing is, Facebook's success is absolute proof of the inadequacies of contemporary lifestyles- we are trying to reinvent ourselves within the confines of our realities.
How’s that for a post modern paradox!
(did you get the irony? go here)
