Thursday, May 31, 2007
showdown of social networking sites
As some of you know, i have been a lurker on myspace with various amounts of enthusiasm for some time now. i wanted to become one with the tech-savvy youth in my postmodernism classes. i wanted to truly experience tech-utopia. I wanted in on all the free gigs. I wanted to broadcast a superfunky avatar of myself in the hope that the profile surfers would be fooled. It was an intoxicating ride, for a while. And then somehow, I found myself joining Facebook. And now I have a Facebook profile. It's here. Otherwise you can find it via my hotmail. The possibilities for timewasting on Facebook seem far greater than those on myspace. I think it is good that my internet access is restricted, being in a small and remote town in Northern Thailand, and all. It's also very lucky, I think, that I didn't discover Twitter until after I left the land of constant internet access...
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I hear myspace is for emos, are you turning emo? hahaha jks
An emo student of mine recently complained in class that when he'd mother had bought him gold, rather than silver, safety pins. That don't sound like our Catri.
facebook is taking over my life. part of me wishes i'd never joined . . . but then i would have missed out on all the poking!
am i turning emo? i've been doing yoga in a hippy town in thailand dor a week? i love golden safety pins. who asked that? are you turning emo?
i just hauled myself out of pai and found myself just accidentally latched onto free wireless in chiang mai. i might not get off the internet until i leave for laos. and if facebook continues to encroach rapidly, i might never leave, it might actually take over my life...
yep, facebook is truly dire. it should be stopped. you should get x me, mon, and then you wouldn't just get poked... non-facebookers, you just won't get the poking refs. it's an inner circle thing.
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