You are my Face(book)

[MunkyKayse]

I have trouble with Facebook and all that social networking stuff, because most people just aren't interesting enough to warrant the amount of stuff they post. When I see an uber-emotional song lyric in a status, I just groan, because to me, it seems like nothing more than a cry for attention.

 

However, I enjoy "...is so into *band*" statuses. I think that's a whole lot more worthwhile than picking a lyric to represent your mindset.

 

It's all preference, obviously. I just view the lyric status as a waste of time. I rarely read them when I see that other people posted them.

 

Well, considering I never post anything serious on my facebook, and all my friends are aware of it, posting random song lyrics in my status is just par for the course. Although now I do have family members on Facebook who don't get my particular sense of humor, and react seriously to stuff I write which kills the fun a bit. Hell, the other day I posted a lyric from Bohemian Rhapsody (the "nothing really matters to me" line), which everyone on the planet should know, and one of my aunts informed me that I do matter cause Jesus loves me.

[Guest Speed Racer]

I think there was a time when the internet was new, and even before it became a reality, that writers and thinkers believed it would be this great thing that brought people across the globe together, that it would shrink the world in such a way as to create a deeper understanding and sympathy for one another. I guess those peeps were wrong.

 

I think the internet has, in a lot of ways. I would say that roughly 90% of my interaction on the internet is superficial, yes (maybe compared to 80% "out here"?), but I certainly have fostered connections with a LOT of people I would not have otherwise met, whom I am very grateful to have (or to have had) in my life.

 

I would also argue that it has created in me a deeper understanding and sympathy for others. Most notably, as a young teenager on a(nother) messageboard with adults - some of whom were parents in their 30s and 40s - I was e-smacked over the head about a lot of my resentful feelings and behaviors toward my parents. Certainly, it also helped curb my terminal uniqueness to discover a lot of other resentful, "special" teens (and wildly immature adults) who were just like me.

 

The internet is both a tool and a toy; dismissing our sense of global understanding on account of LOLbama is shortsighted. And doesn't change the fact that someone who posts "I can't go on like this" as a Facebook status is begging for attention.

[Guest Speed Racer]

Hell, the other day I posted a lyric from Bohemian Rhapsody (the "nothing really matters to me" line), which everyone on the planet should know, and one of my aunts informed me that I do matter cause Jesus loves me.

 

It's also a warning sign on Suicide Hotline, fyi. One line of a song, without music, is a string of words that to a lot of people just means what it says.

[yermom]

For the record, while I'm exhausted by the internet (this board included, with all of the insensitive bullshittery I've seen go down on it over the years) as of late, I really like Speed Racer.

[Preferred B]

This thread is so not about Wilco anymore.

 

That being said, I'd be willing to connect with people based on mutual hatred for lolcats.

[MunkyKayse]

It's also a warning sign on Suicide Hotline, fyi. One line of a song, without music, is a string of words that to a lot of people just means what it says.

 

Hmmm. Well, all I can say is that in this instance, a long chain followed about how I should have picked a lyric earlier in the song so that a "sing-a-long" could have continued, which my aunt either didn't read or didn't get. Which is another reason I like doing lyrics, cause little sing-a-longs do spark up. Even with Wilco lyrics. Helps kill the boredom at work.

[Guest Speed Racer]

That being said, I'd be willing to connect with people based on mutual hatred for lolcats.

 

Okay.

[Preferred B]

Oh, ugh. Never mind. I didn't know it was a "thing." I take it back. Hating lolcats en masse is nearly as bad as loving them.

[Good Old Neon]

I think there was a time when the internet was new, and even before it became a reality, that writers and thinkers believed it would be this great thing that brought people across the globe together, that it would shrink the world in such a way as to create a deeper understanding and sympathy for one another. I guess those peeps were wrong. It's really just another place where we can build little walls around ourselves and refuse to connect on any level deeper than those found in mutual appreciation for lolcats and fantasy baseball.

 

And porn, don't forget the porn, for, were it not for porn, this whole internet thing would never have taken off - like the VCR, the internet was (and is?) pretty much subsidized by the porn industry.

[bleedorange]

And porn, don't forget the porn, for, were it not for porn, this whole internet thing would never have taken off - like the VCR, the internet was (and is?) pretty much subsidized by the porn industry.

 

I think you overstate its importance by a wide margin.

[Good Old Neon]

I think you overstate its importance by a wide margin.

 

Would you care to comment on the relative “tightness” of the margin, and/or its actual girth?

[bjorn_skurj]

I think you overstate its importance by a wide margin.

I dunno. My friend and I have a theory, the Stork-Barton Theory of Libidinal Engineering, which postulates that every new technological media advance is first seized upon by the pornography industry, giving said technology the boost it needs to establish itself.

[spongebob]

Oh relax pal. I getcha now... it was just taken out of context. How was I to know that's when you posted it? Besides, this isn't the first time I've seen someone correct someone about a lyric. I don't claim to be "the superfan," and never will.

 

I'm not your "pal".

[c.lo]

I hate, hate when people air their personal stuff on facebook.

I have a "friend" from highschool, who updated us on everystep of her husband's affair & her marriage breakup.

To all 200 of her "closest" friends. Pathetic.

 

When I do update my status & it's a song lyric, it's actually never how I'm feeling.

It's usually because I can't get the song out of my head.

The other day it was "Courtney.. the beast and dragon, adored".

I had a few friends who liked my status.

No idea if it's because they knew the song?

I don't think it's a cry for attention, maybe just interested to see if anyone likes the same music as me?