Random Thoughts

[braddotcom]

1. Excellent Writing.

"... a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, he has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there."

-- Michael Lewis in Vanity Fair on the collapse of Iceland's economy

Comments

[kaltech]

"A couple of months ago I defriended someone on MySpace. While I knew this person vaguely in real-life, I didn't even know her last name. We definitely have absolutely zero in common. I defriended her because she would put up multiple bulletins every day, effectively taking over my MySpace page with her announcements about heavy metal, something that is of zero relevance to my life. Yesterday, I got a friend request on MySpace... from her. The "personalized" message was "How dare you defriend me. Add me!"

I think I might be in the position where to do nothing is to offend her. While that isn't my intention, she and I aren't friends and I'm not going to add her, because I would just be inviting the sorts of over-posting that caused me to delete her in the first place.

It's interesting to contemplate the new social nuances and subtleties of electronic offense by ommission, but she's going to have to get over it..."Haha! I had this happen to me recently. I "friended" a very old friend. He was a boy who lived in a house down the block

[braddotcom]

I think everyone is about the leave MySpace... I'm not deleting my account, but I use it less and less. In fact, I only log on once a day in the morning to see if I have any messages and to glance at the bulletins (posted by my actual friends, not spam posted by You-Don't-Know-Whos...).

[bimbosavant]

For real. All these folks on my myspace, who I haven't talked with for years and so I was initially curious about, are now just sitting there. I realize that I really don't have anything to say to most of them, or at least don't have the energy to try. More guilt and obligation...that's exactly what I need in my life...

[braddotcom]

When I moved over the the 'Book, I intentionally decided to avoid repeating the MySpace experience (i.e. hundreds of "friends" that I do not know). But some of the same people have cropped up there trying to "friend" me. In some cases I've accepted, but in many others I've hit the ignore button. I have two categories of friends on Facebook, "Actual Friends" and "Everyone else."

Weird world...

[soulsistahd]

I just realized while reading this that you and I have been almost exclusively "e-friends" via email, LJ, and social networking sites since I moved almost 7 years ago, but we were only "in-real-life friends" for what - 4 years? Odd.

[braddotcom]

Interesting. I didn't realize it had been that long. Time flies!