isn't this the creepiest thing you've ever heard of?
facebook, myspace etc ARE FOR KIDS
i just got a friend request on facebook from my 30 year old brother.
the sad part is he has no idea how creepy/gross/rediculous/pathetic he looks with facebook page at the age of 30. he also has a myspace and a friendster....LAME
whenever i see someone older than 24 on a site like that, i think "dont they have something better to do with their time?" and the answer is this case is certainly no.
i am 19 yo at college studying computer science. he is 30 years old living on our mom's couch and facebooking and myspacing
what i hate is that facebook used to be strictly limited to college students. now anyone with an email can join. lame.
Actually, I personally find it odd and a bit ridiculous that anyone visits those sites.
Think about it...
First, we have people who find themselves so overly important that they must share every detail of their life with perfect strangers on a page that anyone can go view.
For some reason, they think we should all know what they look like, where they went today (down to the most intimate details of where they went to the bathroom and what the exact color of the deposit was), and then we need to know about every word they said that day and to whom, and then what their buddies all did, and then who went partying where and how drunk they got and here's pictures of some fool I hang out with passed out, and then some girl I like but haven't gotten the nerve to tell her, and so on and so on...
Then, even worse is that other people spend their whole day following the daily postings and ramblings of these self-important people that they don't even know. They become addicted to following their every word like some low-budget reality show. Hey, I don't know them. But, I'm addicted... Must get to their myspace page and see what they did. It's been like 5 minutes since their last update, I must know if they went to the bathroom again...
Come on people. The whole social networking thing has just gone too far.
Kids, go meet a girl in person. Go spend time with your friends in person. Go somewhere, do something. Don't just sit around posting in a blog. Actually live life. Experience something. Who cares what some fool following your daily blog thinks. You'll never meet them. Go out and do something cool and fun with your friends.
Now, if people would chill out, and just use the pages for sharing important updates with family / relatives that are a distance away, then that's one thing. Sure, post some pictures of your new baby. Post some stories about milestone events. But, put a password on it, and just give it to family and perhaps a few close friends who might have a reason to care. For that purpose, sure, people of all ages should use it.
But, this whole minute by minute diary that has every minor detail about your underwear and what color the polka-dots are, and oh here's a picture of them... That's just ridiculous. No one is so important that we can't go a minute without knowing whether they let a roaring ripper, or an hour without knowing if they changed their outfit again, or a day without knowing whether they do or don't like their crush today (depending on their mood and how they interpreted it when said crush didn't notice them - even though they have never gotten the nerve to speak to them), or a week without knowing about their tragedy of I wore a pink top and my friend showed-up wearing pink pants and we were stuck at home because we couldn't be seen together like that...
Come on. Let's get back to interacting with real people, in real life, at real places, doing real things. Sure, you're a big shot in your own mind in cyber-space. But, go out in the real world and have some real fun despite being just another kid.
That said, if you aren't some self-important person, social networking sites are for all ages. If you are some self-important person, then social networking sites are only for you until you grow up and realize that no-one really cares if you had one hair sticking up while you were in gym class.
So, as for creepy, let's just say it's less creepy to have a guy in his 30's posting a page that is private and linked with a password to share pictures of his kids with their grandparents who are out of state or in another country.
I find it much more troubling when it is used by some pre-teen, tween or immature teen to tell the world that he got a pimple on his rear, that she is totally devastated that someone had the nerve to tell her that she wasn't really all that and to get a life, and that his life was ruined by his math teacher who caught him cheating and gave him an F (boo hoo), and what she wrote in the note she passed in social studies to her girlfriend who just happened to have put on too much make-up and wore the wrong colors after labor day, and so on.
So, that said, I would find it more appropriate for a mature adult to use a social networking site to share milestone events with distant relatives than for you teens to be using it to tell the world what color underwear you are wearing and what you were thinking every minute of the last 24-hours.
