Such is the issue when you pull the mask of anonymity, and the privacy you are awarded with the likes of LJ or MS. FB forces you to be out there, and because of its accessibility and the ability afforded to everyone to find people from your past, well... you get kinda fucked over with your ability to speak candidly when grandma is one "WHY I NEVER" away from making your hilarious dildo-referential humor awkward. And that much more hilarious.
I just reread that paragraph and it makes me sound smartish. I can haz cookie?
though i wouldn't say anonymity or privacy is the issue for me so much as the accessibility. i couldn't care less if the random people from school and my childhood think i've grown up to be demented or pervy, or even a fucking fagot for the that matter. i have no vested interest in their acquaintance. i'm not paranoid of some future employer not hiring me because they saw photos on my page of me at a rave with obviously high people. it's the handful of family who have joined the ranks of facebook sheep who are ruining it for everyone. hell, i don't even really care about my adult cousins and my aunts and uncles... it's that any cussing, dirty talk, or mention of sexual implements is up against my kid cousins and my grandmother.
it's like myspace is hanging out with a group of my friends and my brothers out at a club, but facebook is sitting down to thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's.
Facebook and work are my new closets. The dominant attitudes are just not accepting, or intelligent, so... I bide my time. I just stumble upon such situations somehow.
You forgot me! I still read your lj, because you still remain candid here, and I miss that on the other sites. I agree though. I got my bible-thumping siblings and some aunts and such on the facebook that I always catch myself thinking "is this going to offend them?" But Zeus knows I offend the hell out of them anyway by just being alive.
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I just reread that paragraph and it makes me sound smartish. I can haz cookie?
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though i wouldn't say anonymity or privacy is the issue for me so much as the accessibility. i couldn't care less if the random people from school and my childhood think i've grown up to be demented or pervy, or even a fucking fagot for the that matter. i have no vested interest in their acquaintance. i'm not paranoid of some future employer not hiring me because they saw photos on my page of me at a rave with obviously high people. it's the handful of family who have joined the ranks of facebook sheep who are ruining it for everyone. hell, i don't even really care about my adult cousins and my aunts and uncles... it's that any cussing, dirty talk, or mention of sexual implements is up against my kid cousins and my grandmother.
it's like myspace is hanging out with a group of my friends and my brothers out at a club, but facebook is sitting down to thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's.
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(maybe becky, emily, erin, and indi, too...)
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ps- gonna be down for kevin's graduation in may, need to see you and meet taryn :o)
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