Hiding The Truth

Pap

Facebook can be depressing because everyone else's lives are better than yours... But are they really?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxVZYiJKl1Y

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive." - Matt Cameron

Annafalk

Oooh that looked depressing poor guy :(

Pap

He's just an actor. Imagine the thousands of Facebook users... That's really sad...

JWPearl

Thats truely sad, people are actually addicted to facebook, I just like family pics and recipes I want to cook..

hedonist

There appears to be a "right now" missing in the title

Maybe because I'm a fairly private person, I've never been drawn to participate in the social media craze (aside from posting here). The people who might possibly give a shit about what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, what I'm smoking, what food I'm eating...prefer to be shared personally, individually.

I think the desire to memorialize so much of ourselves - even or especially the trivial - takes away from actual experiences. Takes away from life, from face-to-face interactions.

What is its root? Sure, some good and coming together has happened via Facebook. Toss that aside, is it just narcissism? Look at me, look at my kid, here's what I bought.

Not to mention the dumbing-down of language.

(anyone remember that Curb episode where the one chick said "LOL" to Larry instead of actually laughing?)

Annafalk

hedonist said:

There appears to be a "right now" missing in the title

Maybe because I'm a fairly private person, I've never been drawn to participate in the social media craze (aside from posting here). The people who might possibly give a shit about what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, what I'm smoking, what food I'm eating...prefer to be shared personally, individually.

I think the desire to memorialize so much of ourselves - even or especially the trivial - takes away from actual experiences. Takes away from life, from face-to-face interactions.

What is its root? Sure, some good and coming together has happened via Facebook. Toss that aside, is it just narcissism? Look at me, look at my kid, here's what I bought.

Not to mention the dumbing-down of language.

(anyone remember that Curb episode where the one chick said "LOL" to Larry instead of actually laughing?)

That's so true hedonist

badbrains

hedonist said:

There appears to be a "right now" missing in the title

Maybe because I'm a fairly private person, I've never been drawn to participate in the social media craze (aside from posting here). The people who might possibly give a shit about what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, what I'm smoking, what food I'm eating...prefer to be shared personally, individually.

I think the desire to memorialize so much of ourselves - even or especially the trivial - takes away from actual experiences. Takes away from life, from face-to-face interactions.

What is its root? Sure, some good and coming together has happened via Facebook. Toss that aside, is it just narcissism? Look at me, look at my kid, here's what I bought.

Not to mention the dumbing-down of language.

(anyone remember that Curb episode where the one chick said "LOL" to Larry instead of actually laughing?)

As always, well said hedonist.