Perambulator wrote:
The dark side of it is I think that social networking sites are glamourizing and promoting stupidity. How many people talk about science or art over facebook? Or intellectual theories? Or anything that will be worth reading in 20 years' time? Is it useful at all?
What do you think of Facebook?
Facebook, MySpace and others like it do not interest me. I maintain a site on Myspace to contact my daughter, who is about 2,000 miles away from me right now, in college. Other than the occasional chat with her, I don't use it. I agree that the internet has degraded in quality since the advent of the social networking sites like Facebook. This is what NTs do for fun - post pictures of themselves after getting hammered and passing out on the floor. They have no sense of shame whatsoever, and now that companies are doing online background checks on people when they later compete for higher-paying jobs (once out of college or just out of high school), their prospective employers can sometimes be treated to pics of the applicant passed out on a couch with pissed-in pants and a hand soaking in a bowl of warm water. Most of this is perpetuated by youngsters who think it's just funny, and oh, nothing to worry about. Problem is they don't realize that these pictures can and will haunt them later on in life. Anyone who posts such pictures of themselves online (either for laughs or shock value) is a complete idiot. With the current technology, our lives are documented these days - a lot more than we think - and so why anyone would do something that stupid is utterly beyond my understanding.
Oh, and anything worth reading in 20 years? There's nothing worth reading there
now!
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Terminal Outsider, rogue graphic designer & lunatic fringe.
03 May 2008, 6:04 pm
