After spending nearly 3/4th of my day on facebook (henceforth referred to as FB), checking on my close friends status updates, browsing through “not-so-close” friends profiles, learning more about “acquaintances” and spying upon my enemies, I (like everybody else) am hereby going to criticize about how our social life is merely limited to poking, liking, tagging and at the most inviting friends to play games ONLINE!
I personally, am a huge FB fan. It not only connected me to my oldest friend who I didn’t even know existed, but also helps me keep a tag on who’s gaining weight faster than I am! But what bugs me the most is, when this younger generation ( i.e. only a couple years younger than me) would start using acronyms all over FB (You are my BFBFF), which makes it difficult for REGULAR people, who then have to rely on Google to make some sense out of it (I’m not talking about me here. I’m pretty smart!). But once you know it, it’s kinda addictive (See what I did there ;)). For those, not so smart people who want to Google BFBFF now, I’m making your life easier. It stands for Best Facebook Friend Forever :)
Everybody seems to be using FB lingo these days. A colleague walked upto me to tell me that I am not his “Friend”. Can you imagine the plight of a pretty, humble, self obsessed and highly social young girl like me, on hearing this? I was almost going to update my status to “I am shattered” when he made it clear that he was talking about being my FBF (Facebook Friend). I was happy again and posted a smiley on my status, just like this one --> :)
Also, I don’t understand the deal with “like” button. Why does FB bother to give the option of “liking” my own comment? Of course I like my own comments. I am awesome. But some people merely use “like’ button to mark their presence and yet avoid making smart comments. They are usually the ones who “like” to sit back and watch rather than participate. Similar is the concept of “poking”. You want your friends to know that you’re thinking of them, yet don’t want to make an effort of saying it. So “poke” around.
A friends Status said “My friend updated on fb that he was standing on the edge of a cliff… so I poked him” :)
And what’s with the relationship status updates? No one seems to take it seriously. One moment people are in a relationship and the other moment they are single. C’mon guys, some of our parents are on FB too. We have to explain it on your behalf. It must be a joke for some, but for some it’s a serious affair. Like when Mrs Bin Laden updated her FB status to single ;)
But it’s not really our fault. It’s the social media which is taking over. Talk about Youtube? It seems to have EVERYTHING you need. Sometimes I have to tell my dance students to dance like no one is going to put it on Youtube :)
I want to merge MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and call it: MY FACE YOU TWIT. (joke courtesy: someone smart)
Now, I’ll sign off at this juncture and update my fb status to “Blog Updated”. Meanwhile, you try to figure out this one “Hello everyone. Look at your status, now back to mine, now back to yours, now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn’t mine. But if you stopped posting about other things and made this your status, yours could be like mine. Look down, back up. Where are you? You’re on Facebook, reading the status your status could be like”
