Thursday, May 22, 2008

Technology is wearing me out - Social networking

Walking the border line between Generation Y and the Millennials, I’m up for new technology but still tinged with some old-school tendencies when it comes to anything electronic. After reading comedian Aaron Karo’s column, I’ve decided to unleash a few thoughts I’ve been stewing on for awhile.

Why people still get on MySpace (other than music, of course) at all at this point is beyond me. I don’t know who is who on there, because people use names like CutiePie85 and SoccerBuff69. Turns out they’re just some creep-o that sits next to you in class. When I do friend someone I actually know in real life, they turn around and put a “Click here to see who views your profile” comment in on my comments page. Bot or not, what the deuce?

MySpace is also so flooded with ads, making it damn near impossible to view my own pictures and such, much less those of a hot girl…who, by the way, is probably that creep-o from class again.

Look out Facebook. Zombies? Werewolves? All of these “applications” are taking away from the straight-forwardness that drew us to the site in the first place. The day ads merge into the interface, I’m outie, baby.

Once bitten, twice pissed.
And really, zombies and werewolves? What are these things? The worst part about these things is that it’s usually some loosely connected friend who I questioned accepting in the first place doing the “biting.”

And lastly, I’m convinced that Facebook’s News Feed has some covert way of finding out who we hook up and/or break up with. These people have never shown up before and next thing ya know I’ve got their wall posts, pics, groups, friends, networks, events, notes, relationships, iLikes, Scrubs trivia and ZOMBIE activities just rolling through! Now that’s just messed up.

Bill

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