If you're anything like me and you don't see the point in parading
- who anyone has recently added as a friend,
- or the comments anyone has left anywhere,
- or which page anyone has recently "liked",
- or whatever else they've decided we would like EVERYONE to know...
Then go to your Profile Wall, and click on the little X next to the recent activity you feel is unnecessary. For example, your recently added friends. Go ahead. Try. I think there should be an option to hide them all in the future. BINGO.
*smile of satisfaction*
Come on, I was horrified when Facebook went from "X has commented on Y's photo album" to ""insert X's comment here" on Y's photo album". WHY?! Most comments I leave are usually just intended for the person I left the comment for. Which makes it personal. If it's gonna be splashed on my wall and I have to go through the tedious process of deleting it off... I end up just sending a PM so it stays private for sure but then some things just seem too trivial to actually send a PM about and I end up not saying anything at all! Or is it just me? I don't know.
But hey, if I'm such a private person, why do I keep blogs and pour out my feelings in words and express myself through my photos and actually have a Facebook account for crying out loud. It's called networking and keeping in touch and up to date. I'm already labelled as being very disconnected. I'm trying to make an effort here. But I still value my privacy and I try to keep it as much as possible, while letting people in to what I'm comfortable with sharing.
People judge too fast and too easily. Things people say can easily affect the way other people treat you. Which is unfair.
So.
Do not judge me based on my Facebook page. That would be just... an unfortunate lack of thought. I appreciate friends wanting to check on how I'm doing by going through my pictures or wall posts, etc. I do the same for everyone else as well:
"She graduated already?!" or
"*gasp* They're married?!" or
"He's in Korea now?!" or
"She's in UK too?!" or
"You guys know each other?!" or
"She's a full fledged model now!?" or
"Aww! His girlfriend's cute!" or
"Another Uncle of mine on Facebook?!" or
"I've never even spoken to her in school. I thought she hated me. Odd." or
"Photographer! Whee!" or
"Hello, hello, good looking old friend. Why did I not respond to you BEFORE you had a girlfriend?!"
Haha.
Don't tell me you've never done that too!
Bottom line: You can only expect the most superficial information from Facebook. If you wanna go deeper, you do that in real life. At least that's how I think it should work. Just don't go up to me and say things like "You look like you're having so much fun all the time! Life is really good for you! I'm so jealous!"
I would slap you. No one sane will post up a picture of themselves crying from depression or tired from lack of sleep or pissed off. Unless you want attention and pity. So stop it. The grass is not greener on the other side. IT IS NOT GREENER. Don't be satisfied with ignorance. I make do with what I have. Anyone can do that. YOU included. So stop wishing you were someone else. I do try to be jovial about it but sometimes it just gets a bit much.
Oh and thank you for reading this rant this far. If I had a thousand readers, I'd probably get lots of hate in the comments box. But I can count my readers on one hand, and I know all of you, so I'm not too worried.
I can say what I want! Yay!
Love.
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