I checked out Facebook for the first time ever the other day. E is on it, so she logged in for me (if that's the right terminology) and I had a squiz at all the old peeps from high school.It was very disconcerting. Strange to see ex-girlfriends now with new surnames, a couple of kids and looking fairly mumsy. Strange (yet pleasurable) to see the annoyingly popular guys now kinda fat and balding.
Anyways, here are some impressions that I gleaned from my brief Facebook foray:
* People like to cram as much 'I'm doing great and am a success' information into their little profile photo.
* If you have a family, you choose a photo of you and your brood on holidays, lounging about contentedly on some beach. This says, 'oh, the times we have'.
* If you are a kinda tubby, balding guy you choose a picture of you standing in front of your shiny red car, wearing sunnies, and looking awesome. This is to assure the casual browser, 'yes, I'm balding and eat a fair bit of KFC, but I am also rich and successful, so ner'.
* The people you really wanted to see what they now look like have some random silly photo of a sunset or a motorbike.
4 comments:
Want to be my friend on facebook?
Also - The Ben McLaughlin Coalition.
I'd like to, but then I have to actually join, don't I?
But, hold the phone! There's a Ben McLaughlin Coalition! Wow, that is very awesome. i should join just so I can be in The Coalition.
Oh, and to be your friend as well, of course.
Yeah, I did a search for you, and saw that you hadn't actually signed up (as far as I could tell - there was a gay activist Ben McLaughlin in Melbourne, but I figured that wasn't you).
But I did find the Ben McLaughlin Coalition...
BTW - I'm assuming your lastname is pronounced Mac-Lock-lin, and not Mac-Laugh-line - is that right?
Benno, I have a motorbike.
So, ner.
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