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| Articles: Fuck Facebook |
Posted by
MystryssRavynDarque on Thursday, October 28, 2010 - 11:51 AM PST
I have to ask you a question. Which is the real you?
Is the real you the person who posts twitter like messages throughout the day updating your status with things about folding laundry?
Or is the real you the person who posted late into the night, taking great care with the words you chose to put up on the screen?
I know that I have family on my Facebook friends list, which means I have to watch what I say on there. It sucks, but I get that Facebook isn’t for the real me. It’s for the me people expect to see.
The real me is allowed to frolic and play on Shmeng, and it always has been able to. When I first found Shmeng my first article ended up in the slush pile. But, I think without getting slushed, without finding Shmeng, I would be a very different person. I really think Shmeng saved me from the life I could have had. From the life people I went to high school with have. It opened up my mind to a new world, the real world, with a lot more possibilities.
Shmeng is real. Facebook is not. Facebook is girly games, Bejeweled, and what peoples babies are getting up to and into. Facebook is for spying on your old school mates, and having them spy on you. Facebook is, in many cases, putting on your Sunday best and showing off. Facebook is shallow.
I want depth, I want reality. I want Shmeng back. I’d rather spend every five minutes checking in on Shmeng, like I used to do, instead of checking in on people I don’t give a rats ass about on Facebook.
I give a rats ass about all of you.
I sense a yearning for the resurgence of energy on Shmeng. I sense a need for real people to talk to. Maybe Shmeng does its best during recessions or something, but I don't care. Even if it's just for a little while, I want to see a family reunion here.
I know some people will never return, and some people are lost to the sea, but those that still are and those that can be Shmengers, Shmenglings, Shmengies, Shmengsters again I want to see you posting. Not just in the chat box. Not just on the forums. But articles. I think we all need a good rant.
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Re: Fuck Facebook
by Anonymous-Coward on Oct 29, 2010 - 03:18 AM
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I know what you're saying about Facebook. I have family on there, too (including my mom) so I don't end up saying everything I would otherwise want to, which is frustrating. Though I am leaning more and more towards just saying what I think, and letting the chips fall as they may.
As for Shmeng, yes, I think there are several people who seem to want to jumpstart things, but it's not organized. We're not gaining momentum. But I do think it would be interesting to get things moving again, if only to see how people have developed during the down time. I know I have changed a lot.
A lot of my problem with posting more is that I feel I have a lot more to add than I ever used to, but I am also far busier than I have ever been before, and when I am done running around to practices and school functions and local music shows and hanging out with friends, I have little time or energy for more than a one-line Facebook status.. It's sad, but inevitable. Kind of like the post-tornado condition of my apartment.
But I promise to start thinking about article topics, and maybe even write one if I get a spare breathing moment. And I know that doesn't help much, but I don't want to say I'm going to do something that I may not be able to do.
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Re: Fuck Facebook
by Xaoswolf (xaoswolfatgmaildotcom)
on Oct 31, 2010 - 05:35 PM
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My only problem with Facebook, is that at my highschool reunion, my classmates told me that I'm funny, and that they loved reading my updates. That puts quite a bit of pressure on my to be funny anytime I update...
As to my parents and family being on Facebook also? Well, I don't really care, and will post the same stupid stuff that I normally do. Hell, my parents even read my blog, and half the time it's just titties and dick jokes...
I do miss Shmeng though...
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Everything in its place
by Arthegarn on Nov 06, 2010 - 03:31 AM
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Well, Facebook does has its virtues. It does reconnect people, for instance. But, yeah, it serves for little more than that.
I have been missing Shmeng (and Shmeng-like-pages) for quite some time, now, up to the point that I am paying someone to build my own. I miss interesting people and challenging debate and my English is getting really rusty so, yeah, it's worth a try. Well worth, I'd say. I guess I have some things written over the past few years that I could translate and submit to fuel this, even if they are endless Arthegarnesque ramblings... What are the editors for, anyway?
Yeah, let's do it.
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Arthegarn
by Arthegarn on Nov 06, 2010 - 03:38 AM
(User info | Send a Message) http://http:// | Aw, and as for "the real me" thing... Well, it's Arthegarn on the web, you won't find a single reference to my civil name anywhere. And I stopped caring about scandalising a long tome ago: if you don't want to know that I am, say, into coprophilia, don't peek into Arthegarn's life and stick to.... wll to the other guy's. That includes my parents too. I just don't give a damn.
And no, I am not into scat. I have changed a lot, but not that much ;-) |
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