26.3.10

The Sometimes Souring Effects of Social Networks


It doesn't feel good.


A friend suggested recently that facebook, even more so than blogs, has broken down a social barrier that results in people revealing TOO MUCH about themselves.   I agree and have suffered the panicky, nauseating effects of posting something and later really, really, really regretting it.

FACEbook.   Huh.  It's lives up to it's name, I guess...

Not that Blogs don't have similar outcomes. 



















Blog.

That's the sound your stomach makes when you wake up the next day, realizing that when you posted last night, you hadn't thought about the fact that people are going to actually read it.  Also, one automatically writes with some kind of an an audience in mind.   Unless your blog is private it's impossible to know your audience.  Every once in a while I'll be sitting in a room with a bunch of people and it will occur to me that some of these people may have read what I've written.  And then I get that sickening feeling in my stomach.

Blaaaaahhhhhhgggg


 



3 comments:

cristie said...

now i am wondering why i could care less. xox

Cath said...

You're too funny. I agree. I feel blaaaaaahhhg more about facebook than blogs. But I know that fear of being too real, saying too much, wishing you could edit when whoops! It's too late!

As for you, I've always loved everything you've posted.

Kristen said...

You never post anything risky my dear... plus some people look for controversy and/or create it, just remember that. :) Love you!