Following on from Octa's parody thread its interesting to observe peoples post on facebook of the "I love my life" variety whether its a spanking new expensive car or an exotic holiday, Is there any purpose to these posts other than LOOK AT ME?
I don't do facebook any more, part of the reason is because people I knew were doing this kind of stuff when I personally know them and in some cases know that their life is actually far from perfect and I was bored of the lack of genuine communications.
Don't get this twisted though, I love peoples NGD posts on here but we all love guitars on here and appreciate them, this is a guitar forum after all. Plus we get to share the shitty times in life too and I feel we have an amazing supportive network on here and an incredibly generous "all in this together" culture.
Maybe I just need to stop concerning myself with this and just get on with my own life which is totally fucking awesome by the way, every day is a new adventure etc......NOT.
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Ever watched that god awful programme Rich Kids of instagram? makes me want to puke just how delussional, thick and arrogant some people can be because of all the money they have and often didn't earn themselves.
Oh no...are you suggesting that people exaggerate and paint a distorted picture of their real lives when they post on social media? A social media platform that allows people to display the worst side of human nature where they believe they can do so without causing any harm?
I thought Mark Zuckerberg's vision of a connected world would mean a world filled with perfect shiny happy people with perfect lives filled with never ending joy, where the sun always shines and everyone is a celebrity, and is nice to each other.
So it's all fake, like fake news?
I am shocked and disappointed. Deffo not going to join Facebook now.
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For me, the interest on Facebook is joining decent groups of likeminded people. Two in particular for me are brimming with interesting stuff.
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" if you have 400 friends, and i use the term loosely as some of them are people you have never even met, then at any one time someone somewhere will be doing something better than you are"
thats why she is an ex wife, or soon to be ex as the paperwork went in the post this very morning :-)
As have fora and other forms of self publication. T'internet gives all us gobby berks a voice eh?
I really don't understand the hate it gets - if you don't like it, don't use it. If the content on your wall annoys you that much, you just have shitty friends.
Not a fan myself.
A few years ago, I read a magazine article that linked a rise in complaints at restaurants with the rise of social media.
It seems that numpties are so preoccupied with photographing and uploading pics of their meals... that, when they eventually get around to eating, the food is not quite as warm as it was when delivered to the table. Hence a rise in complaints about lukewarm food.