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Something about Facebook
Dec. 21st, 2009 10:09 pmthat makes one feel like everyone has left the planet.
No more long deep posts on Live Journal, about what's really bothering people. Despite jokes about emo and drama and navel gazing--I liked knowing what made friends tick, what was erupting in their lives. What bothered them, moved them, broke them.
FB (because typing Facebook would take too long heaven forbid)is, in truth, the fastest way to find out where people are, emotionally and physically at the very moment. And you can be notified of updates.
Except...it's not private. You cannot filter to specific groups for specific topics. There are topics you can't reveal to all your friends--so don't reveal at all.
It's brief: nothing in depth.
It's button pushing. Everything's got a tiny group, or fans or or anti-fans. I wanted to post something about the anti-gay legislation pending in Uganda---but I figured someone would just make a fast FB group so that we could all join and announce to each other that we oppose this.
No, the Ugandan legislature, and those in Rwanda and the neighboring conservative nations who are watching what develops, do NOT give a fuck about FB buttons. I doubt any UA inspired letters of mine will help, but it's got to mean more than a button.
OK, that went off on a side track. But it's been on my mind: how to post something important--and yet not sound "too heavy". I've been mulling how to discuss something ugly to friends that won't be a downer this time of year.
(Of course, the other problem was how to discuss this without my sounding ignorant and clueless, or days behind everyone else. Another topic for another time.)
*sigh* I should leave off now. This has gone off track, as all my writing and thoughts do. Also trivial.
It's...now I have the feeling that I roam around the internet looking for something that will engage my brain. Not that my friends don't--as noted, FB lets me know what all of you are doing, what little things bring you down, or delight you. Sometimes even deep, sudden crises or celebrations are revealed; for that I am grateful for that social network.
But I do miss the deeper longer thoughts of friends; this is the only place where I hear most of them. Deep thoughts are not for parties or pryactice; there's no time, and sometimes no attention. Live Journal was the place for everyone to write long links of thoughts, without the risk of another voice jumping in midway to comment, interrupt and divert the chain. Time and space was available to present your case, then get feedback.
Out of time, out of space; now out of life in the live journal. I might learn what's going on currently in my friends' lives at FB. I'd love to know the why.
No more long deep posts on Live Journal, about what's really bothering people. Despite jokes about emo and drama and navel gazing--I liked knowing what made friends tick, what was erupting in their lives. What bothered them, moved them, broke them.
FB (because typing Facebook would take too long heaven forbid)is, in truth, the fastest way to find out where people are, emotionally and physically at the very moment. And you can be notified of updates.
Except...it's not private. You cannot filter to specific groups for specific topics. There are topics you can't reveal to all your friends--so don't reveal at all.
It's brief: nothing in depth.
It's button pushing. Everything's got a tiny group, or fans or or anti-fans. I wanted to post something about the anti-gay legislation pending in Uganda---but I figured someone would just make a fast FB group so that we could all join and announce to each other that we oppose this.
No, the Ugandan legislature, and those in Rwanda and the neighboring conservative nations who are watching what develops, do NOT give a fuck about FB buttons. I doubt any UA inspired letters of mine will help, but it's got to mean more than a button.
OK, that went off on a side track. But it's been on my mind: how to post something important--and yet not sound "too heavy". I've been mulling how to discuss something ugly to friends that won't be a downer this time of year.
(Of course, the other problem was how to discuss this without my sounding ignorant and clueless, or days behind everyone else. Another topic for another time.)
*sigh* I should leave off now. This has gone off track, as all my writing and thoughts do. Also trivial.
It's...now I have the feeling that I roam around the internet looking for something that will engage my brain. Not that my friends don't--as noted, FB lets me know what all of you are doing, what little things bring you down, or delight you. Sometimes even deep, sudden crises or celebrations are revealed; for that I am grateful for that social network.
But I do miss the deeper longer thoughts of friends; this is the only place where I hear most of them. Deep thoughts are not for parties or pryactice; there's no time, and sometimes no attention. Live Journal was the place for everyone to write long links of thoughts, without the risk of another voice jumping in midway to comment, interrupt and divert the chain. Time and space was available to present your case, then get feedback.
Out of time, out of space; now out of life in the live journal. I might learn what's going on currently in my friends' lives at FB. I'd love to know the why.
