Friday, September 11, 2009

Facebook Creeping

Almost every single time I open firefox, I do the same thing. I click on my Facebook quicklink at the top of my screen and log in. It is almost a subconscious response I have. Really Facebook is a great thing, keeping in touch with friends, all the great social aspects of it. We all have a facebook, so you know what it can do. But one thing that usually comes up as a joke is an almost "creepy" matter- Facebook Creepin'.

Facebook Creep (verb) - "to look up persons whom you are not related or affiliated with and/or have no intention of being friends with in real life because of some amount of potential weirdness, hotness, lameness or other limiting factor" (urbandictionary.com, one of my favorites)

Even I have constantly pressed the right arrow on my keypad to skip through pictures of people I know or sometimes hardly even know. It seems we are always interested in other peoples lives. They say that every time you get your photo taken, it takes some of your soul, so some of my facebook friends must have little to nothing left of their soul, because their photo counts have surpassed even 2000. This is the worst to facebook creep, because its always just a few girls taking random pictures of themselves usually just next to each other making a stupid face. It is only because they feel the need to make their picture count even higher.
What I consider scary (and I'm sure moms do also) is actual internet stalkers. (a couple steps above facebook creepin') . What facebook has done is just made it a thousand times easier to do. You can view over 2000 pictures of a single person sometimes. Even when they decide to show it, you can see their address, phone numbers, school, and much much more! And who is to say that looking through hundreds of pictures of the same person is ok? Facebook allows us to do that now.
One of my other thoughts about Facebook are some of the things people upload onto it. What I was taught was that if something wasn't appropiate infront of your grandma, you shouldn't be doing it... apparently some people have some scandelous grandmas. Mostly when girls put their profile picture as something revealing. I do always laugh at the guys who are like 'damn girl u so fine in dat bikini' and then her responding "oh hahaha thx~~<3"But it does bring up some 'inappropriate names' to match their 'inappropriate picture' which I personally think fits just fine. They are also showing off to all the stalkers because when you set a picture of yourself to a profile picture almost anyone can see it. They are just baiting themselves as targets to these creepers.

Just like in that essay by Montaigne- "We can only misuse good things"

2 comments:

  1. hahaha!
    i absolutely love this post!
    i am pretty sure every single high school student is quilty of facebook creepin
    ..gotta love it:)

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  2. http://youre-real-lame.blogspot.com/
    there

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