Are you on Facebook?
"Why are you not on Facebook?" I hear this question on a daily basis from Narrrling, from friends, from colleagues and now even my own sister the housewife is on Facebook. Narrrling says, "Facebook is soooo you yeah"... So me? What is it about Facebook that my hubby wants me to be on it so bad?I asked him, "You sure you want your wife to be on facebook? I'm going to use the nick, Hentai Queen and I'll link you in as my husband. You sure you don't mind?"
Instead of looking terrified, Narrrling said, "Sure! Go ahead!" Wow.. this facebook is really something... The image conscious Narrrling doesn't even mind being linked to a Hentai Queen. What is the world coming to?
I logged onto Narrrling's account and started exploring and after a few minutes, I went crazy on it... I started searching for old friends, old boyfriends, old enemies, old relatives, old teachers, old tution mates, old neighbours, old men, old women.. When I was done, I moved on to Narrling's ex girlfriends, ex friends, ex colleagues, ex neighbour.. etc.... When I find them, I also find out where they're working, who their friends are, what they wore to a party, what their friends say about them, where they got virtually poked, kissed, hugged, slapped.... You pretty much get to size a person up from their facebook profile alone.
Then I moved on to searching for my boss and boss's boss and boss's boss's boss... and found it real strange seeing the normally serious looking people in my company getting snow balled and batman kissed and virtual yoga-ed... on facebook. I find it a bit.... emasculating.... Not forgetting that some colleagues we normally call by some Chinese names like Ong or Ah Chan or Ravendran, suddenly becoming Gary or Stefano or Raven... ooo... fancy
The next day I logged onto Narrrling's account again and posted some photos of Mini-N resulting in Narrrling protesting because he said all his colleagues will think that he's posting up photos of his baby on facebook during office hours. See, first flaw of Facebook breaking through. Your boss and colleagues knows exactly when you're wasting away precious office hours. Gone are the times when putting up a serious face in front of the computer is good enough.
Then I found my angel faced cousin on facebook and I was so suprised with what I saw in her profile. I know she recently broke up with her boyfriend but I didn't know she was THAT aggresively looking out. The photos she posted up were mainly photos of herself... In this dress and that dress, in this pose and that pose, in this changing room trying on a hot dress, in that room getting ready for a photo shoot ... It was a lot of self-advertisements. Photos of flowers she got on Valentine's day, her valentine dinner's meal, the presents she got...etc... She definitely needs a lesson or two from me when it comes to hooking up men from the internet.. If I was on Facebook and I was looking to bag a decent and nice husband, I'd put photos of myself helping out in an orphanage, offering chinese new year goodies to old folks, playing with children in a playground, bathing little puppies... and NOT pictures of myself lying in a suggestive pose on a bed on Valentine's night. But she looks hot, no doubts.
Then there are guy friends who perpetually only seem to only have ladies in their facebook and all photos published by himself are photos of himself surrounded by 20 formula one chics, photos of him dancing with 20 wild babes in a club, photos of him receiving an award on stage, photos of him getting a thumbs up from somebody, photos of his car, his house, his own office room... Sometimes people can see beyond what's shown and read underlying messages too and photos like these just says too much too loudly, don't you think? Next time put some photos of yourself taking little children to the zoo, man.
Anyway, having said all that, I'm just a boring girl turning auntie who is sour of everyone getting in touch with everyone else via one of those winks and pokes. Honestly, I do like checking out what this person and that person is up to every now and then but I'd prefer not to share too much of myself on it. I'm not at all a very private person and yet I find facebook a bit too intrusive. Strange that I'm the only person in the world who thinks so.
posted by Miki-C @ 6:24 PM
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