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Originally Posted by KendaleMiami
you're probably just socially awkward. it's okay, most people are in this day and age. you just have it worse than most.
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OMG! That is so funny. A person who would rather communicate with their friends face to face, or at worst over the telephone, is NOT socially awkward.
A person who pretemds to have friends because they babble electronically and share verything down to their bra size, but hasn't met half the people they babble with and can't carry on a face to face conversation, is the definition of socially awkward.
I think you have things completely backward.
I don't use much social media, except as it relates to my work. I definitely don't use face book (although i did short the stock and made a killing) and i really have very little interest in it. The whole thing seems like an enormous entertainment playhouse for people who have difficulty getting off their a$$es and recreating in a physical way, and intereacting with people face to face. It is SO easy to say you are my friend when all i have to do is send you a little message, rather than work hard at carrying on a conversation ( a socail skill which is awkward for some) and engaging you without the distraction of little bells and whistles ringing left and right as someone wants to share with a group of people they mostly never met that their corn on the left toe just fell off.
I wonder about the economic consequences of social media. People are getting very wealthy from it, and the more they can get people to use it, the more wealthy they become. It is a 'product' designed in many ways to seperate people from their money, and it does a very good job. The cool thing is that they have been able to suggest that if you don't skype or face book or whatever, you are a social darwin. It is very cleveryly handled, and makes billions for the sites.
And lastly, anyone who thinks that ANYTHING they put on the internet is not completely public information is being naiive. With a few clever key strokes there is nothing that i can't learn about you from those cute pics you took to see who could give the deepest BJ in high school to your medical records to your complete financial history, including that credit card number that you "secretly" gave to that social media site!
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