Screw you, judgmental lady
I really don't have the time to waste on this rant, but I need to get it out of my system.
This afternoon, on my way to the doctor's office, I tuned into my local NPR station and listened to a part of the Kojo Nnamdi show. Normally, this would be a cause for celebration, because I frankly adore Kojo and don't generally get to listen to him. However, today's topic was To Post or Not to Post? Photos and Social Networking. If I'd known that, I probably would have known to avoid it, but oh well...
I tuned in just in time to hear one of the guests (a prof of information studies at my alma mater) whining about how some people (read: women, I suspect) post pictures of their kids as their Facebook profile picture and they shouldn't do this, because it means they're defining themselves solely as parents and nothing else and blah blah blah.
As you might guess, this is the point at which my head exploded and I changed the station.
Seriously? Seriously? In this day and age, the fact that I've used an adorable pic of my son as my Facebook profile pic means that I'm defining myself as just a mommy and nothing more? Really?
Do you know why I've got Barak in a dinosaur suit as my profile pic on FB? Two reasons: 1) he's a hell of a lot cuter than I am and 2) it would take me friggin' forever to dig through our vast digital photo collection to find one decent picture of me. I'm sure there's a decent picture in there somewhere, but I don't have the time or energy to find it. So why bother, when I've got millions of good pics of the kids?
I didn't listen long enough to hear if she discussed what it means if people use a picture of, say, Mickey Mouse as their profile pic. OMG, you're defining yourself as just a visitor to Disney and nothing else!!!eleventy!!!
I also didn't hear if they discussed sites like LJ and DW, where you can have dozens to hundreds of icons. I've got maybe half a dozen pics of the kids here in icons. The rest is, of course, fandom stuff. If I weren't a lazy sod, I'd probably switch my FB pic around more often, but I don't bother. Probably because I don't think that my FB pic defines who I am. ::snort::
::looks at icon:: However, Baby Yael does describe my feelings on the matter rather well. ;)
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Thank you, I feel much better now.
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This afternoon, on my way to the doctor's office, I tuned into my local NPR station and listened to a part of the Kojo Nnamdi show. Normally, this would be a cause for celebration, because I frankly adore Kojo and don't generally get to listen to him. However, today's topic was To Post or Not to Post? Photos and Social Networking. If I'd known that, I probably would have known to avoid it, but oh well...
I tuned in just in time to hear one of the guests (a prof of information studies at my alma mater) whining about how some people (read: women, I suspect) post pictures of their kids as their Facebook profile picture and they shouldn't do this, because it means they're defining themselves solely as parents and nothing else and blah blah blah.
As you might guess, this is the point at which my head exploded and I changed the station.
Seriously? Seriously? In this day and age, the fact that I've used an adorable pic of my son as my Facebook profile pic means that I'm defining myself as just a mommy and nothing more? Really?
Do you know why I've got Barak in a dinosaur suit as my profile pic on FB? Two reasons: 1) he's a hell of a lot cuter than I am and 2) it would take me friggin' forever to dig through our vast digital photo collection to find one decent picture of me. I'm sure there's a decent picture in there somewhere, but I don't have the time or energy to find it. So why bother, when I've got millions of good pics of the kids?
I didn't listen long enough to hear if she discussed what it means if people use a picture of, say, Mickey Mouse as their profile pic. OMG, you're defining yourself as just a visitor to Disney and nothing else!!!eleventy!!!
I also didn't hear if they discussed sites like LJ and DW, where you can have dozens to hundreds of icons. I've got maybe half a dozen pics of the kids here in icons. The rest is, of course, fandom stuff. If I weren't a lazy sod, I'd probably switch my FB pic around more often, but I don't bother. Probably because I don't think that my FB pic defines who I am. ::snort::
::looks at icon:: However, Baby Yael does describe my feelings on the matter rather well. ;)
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Thank you, I feel much better now.
This entry was originally posted at http://mara.dreamwidth.org/116184.html, where there are
comments. Please feel free to comment either here or there.