Jessie ([info]jebe) wrote,
@ 2008-08-24 17:36:00
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So this facebook thing, I don't really get it right, I mean I'm starting to. I think I do. I don't understand most of the applications that have been foisted upon me, I don't like being alerted to the fact that "1 of your friends has compared you to another friend, and they think you have better hair," or something, when I can't even find out who I was compared to or who thinks I have better hair or anything. But I'm on facebook at the moment, hoping mostly that someone will talk to me (apparently you can do this with this chat thing down the bottom) while I desperately try to put off reading an 163 page report on partner rape so I can write a 500 word essay on it, and why it sucks especially bad for low income earners. I kind of wish that I had picked an easier topic like "Why lesbians can't adopt" or something but look, I just didn't want to okay.

So instead I'm on facebook looking through this "people you may know" list that seems to be growing bigger all the time, and it turns out I do know these people, or did know these people but now they are doing things like being in a relationship with someone called Angus or going to universities and it says they've graduated because they don't understand that your class year is not just the year it is that you're both in class and making a facebook. (Year in question being 2007)

So I'm looking through these things right, and some times I get not really sad but a bit funny feeling, because some of these people I may know, I really knew, I mean like were really my friends. And then I'm like "well why didn't they add me" but then I realise that some of these people were dicks. I mean like, really. One of my best friends once said to me "So and so got gastro and lost 4kg in 5 days, maybe you should get gastro" and then laughed, and like wow that is a really dickish horrible thing to do. I mean most highschool people are horrible, that's just a fact but this was from a person who I think personally prided themselves on being a lot more mature than most highschool people. And who did a lot of other really horrible things.

I guess the point is that recently I think, by recently I mean over the last year I've become more and more reclusive (whereas it seems (according to facebook, which is what this entry so far is really about) that when you leave highschool you're meant to get more and more outgoing) and people take note of this - when I see people I haven't seen in a while they say things like "Nobody's seen you in ages!" or "You should really come to this thing...no really, do come," the latter with a kind of soft pity or maybe to convince me that most people really aren't that bad (it sounds like I hate it when people do it, I don't). I think that in highschool you put up more with horrible people and in turn churn out your own bit of horribleness, whether you mean to or not, just to fit in. I think now that I put up a lot less with other people being horrible, and I hope that I'm less horrible. I think I am.

Anyway the fact remains that I'm really bored and I really don't want to write this essay. The fact that I'm sitting on the couch and not at my desk is no help. In between the start of writing this and now I've also gone and eaten some corn chips and tuna (good combo) and blow dried my dog, and then made him wee twice by accident. Maybe I'll add a meme onto this if I get desperate.



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[info]loveandrocket
2008-08-24 12:12 pm UTC (link)
I understand. I really do understand. I only just fairly recently caved into facebook, and pretty much, I still hate it. I hate the almost complete and utter lack of privacy - the "newsfeed". I don't give a shit if someone just commented on a photo with some inside joke. I don't care that someone just "poked" you, whatever that really means.

I particularly understand about the once-friends now-strangers issue, too. I remember, maybe at the start of last year or so, I suddenly found myself recieving friends requests on Myspace, from people I went to school with, but wasn't even friends with. Like, people whom had openly hated on me in school. It seems they'd suddenly realised I wasn't so weird in highschool, and now that they've pierced their nose and dropped out of their bullshit art degree, they want to be my "friend".

Denied. I don't hold grudges (no, that's a lie - I do, but just not about this kind of thing), but I also don't forget about people who tried to tell everyone I was a witch-lesbian (true story!).

The internet is lame. The end.

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[info]wenchymcwench
2008-08-24 11:05 pm UTC (link)
I get the 'no one's seen you in ages' / 'you should come out to this thing' spiel all the time. The kicker is, the few times I've actually made the effort to go out to these things, these people end up ditching me part way through the night. In essence, very little has changed for me since I was in highschool. I still can't stand most of the people I went to school with, many of them are very fake and they realise after spending 2 hours with me that I still really don't fit in with them and their plans.

I have always been the worlds most giant recluse and I'm only getting worse. All I need now is a copy of World of Warcraft, an internet 'boyfriend' (who, I probably met in my guild while playing said game) and some new pairs of fat pants. :(

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[info]scoutlostthewar
2008-08-25 12:03 am UTC (link)
As long as we are friends Maddie you will never EVER need WOW. Sheesh!

As far as facebook goes, I've blocked most applications and most people from my highschool. Its way too depressing to find out things like the person that refused to watch crouching tiger, hidden dragon because 'he doesn't need to watch crap with subtitles' (true story!) managed to successfully impregnate someone. :(

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[info]egg_mailman
2008-09-11 12:25 pm UTC (link)
Hello!

Does that mean you have a new puppy?

And what is the name of that Swedish girl. Joanna.... you know. Who is really pretty and had cool hair for ages then grew it out and was kinda boring?

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[info]jebe
2008-09-11 12:26 pm UTC (link)
Hi!
Yes I do! He's a standard poodle and pretty cute! Are you talking about Johanna Ost?

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[info]egg_mailman
2008-09-11 12:28 pm UTC (link)
I LOVE POODLES!

YESSSSSSSSSSSS. Oh man, I was like googling
"Joanna+Sweden+Punk+Olstrom" and all this shit.!

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[info]ayashiijanai
2008-10-27 05:23 am UTC (link)
That `year' thing and no-one getting it really annoys me. It's like `class of'! But with `year' instead of `class'!

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