I deleted my Facebook account yesterday because I realized I hate it. It's kinda taking over the world and that scares me. Or at least my world. I'll be having a thought and think "I should update my facebook status with that." Like just now I was thinking that PJ Harvey's album To Bring You My Love is a perfect album, probably one of my favorites. And that I want my next album to sound kinda like that. And that's when I wanted to reduced all of these complex ideas into a facebook status update that would have said "Carl is in love with PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love." And that's so lame, living life so that you can update your facebook status about it. And I guess it's just as lame to live life so you can update your blog. But at least your blog is a kind of independent entity. Plus, if I was using Facebook, this post would have been reduced to...
"Carl hates Facebook"
Which is what my status was two status updates ago. And then the one after that was "Carl is lovesick," which he is, but he's not sure if wants to reduce all the feelings he's having about love at the moment into a simple statement such as that. And really Carl was only updating his status like that so people would ask him "Hey Carl, why are you lovesick?" And then Carl would just ignore these questions and update his status again in a few minutes with "Carl is in love with PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love."
I hope someday to eliminate even this blog and my myspace and make an actual independent website which is not part of some huge conglomerate networking service. If people want to ask me how I'm doing, they can call me. And if they don't have my phone number, they can email me for it. Although Gmail is bugging me too, especially Gmail chat, because if I have it open at work, I'm constantly looking down at my taskbar to see if someone has messaged me. Which is really codependent of me. Or at least dependent.
To conclude, facebook sucks, myspace sucks, gmail sucks. Wikipedia is cool. Blogger is ok. Real human interaction is best.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Finally, I found the first American who not even thinks that Facebook is impotent and really not awesome, but also 'has the balls' to erase oneself off it! Hats off!
Well, I have gone back on facebook now. But only to advertise my shows. And to look at pictures of people I have crushes on when I'm drunk. And to update my status every 30 minutes.
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