Internet Epiphany
It occured to me last night when I was sitting at the internet cafe with Tails on FB, that the internet and social networking sites are almost completely 100% bullshit. Like I was reading peoples status updates about how "awesome" Download was, and half the people who said it were complete jobbers who stayed in their tents half the time, never even went to see Aerosmith etc etc. Why do people do stuff like that? It's like Facebook was invented so people can go "OMG I'm having a great time and therefore I have a better life than you!!" or the contrasting "OMG I'm SO depressed I think I might kill myself if I don't get comms and attention right now :(" It's all about wanting attention in some way or another and it seems silly to me now that I'm properly thinking about it.
Also, know what annoys me? (which I've probably been guilty of without even realising it) When people ask stuff over the internet when they could easily ask their mates over the phone or text them, but they want everyone to see instead so they post it on FB. It's like me messaging McGuigs going "We were SO drunk last night!! Where did you end up???"
I don't actually care were he ended up, I just want to proclaim to all of Facebookland that me and Mcguigs were out getting pished last night and therefore having a good time. A better time than you had while sitting in at home on your computer. Haha. So stupid. It's the same with the pictures. You take photos and put them online. It's nice to share with your friends the pictures of last night when everyone had an awesome night. But it's also a bit of a fuck you to those who poofed it and never came out, or those who wheren't invited. You break up with your boyfriend so you immediately upload 50+ photos of yourself looking super hot and having an awesome time with your friends and dancing with a few sexy guys as a way of saying "I'M HAVING FUN WITHOUT YOU!! :)" Everything seems so false.
When I was on FB last night I just wondered why I even had one...barely none of the status updates interested me and I didn't have much interesting to say either.
So then why do I have one? and why do I even bother with it then? Am I attention seeking too? Maybe everyone is a bit. And is it such a bad thing?? Where do we draw the line at being "too" attention seeking. It's a good way to keep in touch with friends you don't see very often. I'm not gonna phone up say...Sarah who I used to go to school with and be like "Hey! Not spoke to you in like 7 years but omg how's life???" Whereas on Facebook that would probably be completely acceptable. Society is becoming increasingly isolated. Anyone ever seen the movie "Surrogates?" It's gonna end up like that man. We would probably all rather sit at our computer screens and message each other or text each other than actually talk to our friends in person. Maybe we're all just too lazy to make the effort. The thought is depressing. I'm hereby bringing back the telephone call and going to make a special effort to call people more often instead of texting.
Ironic that it took me losing my phone and there by nearly all my internet access to make this epiphany. But the internet clearly still has a bit of a hold on me because I felt the need to come online and proclaim my little epiphany to anyone that would care to read this crazy rant. Maybe I like to pretend LJ is different. Maybe I need to feel like someone actually cares about my thoughts. Ha.
Anyway before I truely get thrown in the nuthouse, I must say that Download was disappointing this year. Yes I said it. No pretending "OMG I had an awesome time" so I can make people feel jealous or so I can pretend our camp of 50 was better than McGuigans camp of 10. It had it's ups and downs but over all it just didn't even out. The weather was absolutley crazy for a start. Scorching sun half the time so I ended up crispy burnt and then terrential rain the other half resulting in about 5 inches deep of mud all over the festival (which was the thing that stopped probably about half the camp going to see Aerosmith and also stopped myself seeing Steel Panther) Add to that very uncomfortable sleeping and the lack of clean toilets and that makes for a grumpy Ruth. I tried for the most part to just roll with it. It's a festival and I knew I wasn't in for a night at the Hilton. And it worked, there were alot of really awesome and funny moments and some great bands. On the last night we tried to make our own gazebo out of an air bed and tent poles and when that (obviously) didn't work we stole the English camps gazebo and graffitied it. It was more fun than it probably sounds. On top of that there were also some crackin bands that I enjoyed more than I anticipated. The Deftones and Rage were particularly good, and I'm not a big fan of either of those. But they really rocked. The Thursday and Saturday were probably the best days. Thursday was shitty weather but the banter in the orange tent was fab.
Corky (talking about rage songs): These people always say fuck you to the man in charge and I recently realised the man in charge is my dad.
Lol. No more bongs for Corky.
My biggest regret was not visiting camp John Locke when I had the chance. I felt that our camp was fun at points but that overall I was camping with aquaintances rather than friends. I would rather have 3 close friends than 50 aquaintances any day.
On one final note I would like to tell people who are going to the cinema in the near future NOT to go and see "Black Death" starring Sean Bean. Worst film I have seen in a very long time.
Talk to you later folks.
Also, know what annoys me? (which I've probably been guilty of without even realising it) When people ask stuff over the internet when they could easily ask their mates over the phone or text them, but they want everyone to see instead so they post it on FB. It's like me messaging McGuigs going "We were SO drunk last night!! Where did you end up???"
I don't actually care were he ended up, I just want to proclaim to all of Facebookland that me and Mcguigs were out getting pished last night and therefore having a good time. A better time than you had while sitting in at home on your computer. Haha. So stupid. It's the same with the pictures. You take photos and put them online. It's nice to share with your friends the pictures of last night when everyone had an awesome night. But it's also a bit of a fuck you to those who poofed it and never came out, or those who wheren't invited. You break up with your boyfriend so you immediately upload 50+ photos of yourself looking super hot and having an awesome time with your friends and dancing with a few sexy guys as a way of saying "I'M HAVING FUN WITHOUT YOU!! :)" Everything seems so false.
When I was on FB last night I just wondered why I even had one...barely none of the status updates interested me and I didn't have much interesting to say either.
So then why do I have one? and why do I even bother with it then? Am I attention seeking too? Maybe everyone is a bit. And is it such a bad thing?? Where do we draw the line at being "too" attention seeking. It's a good way to keep in touch with friends you don't see very often. I'm not gonna phone up say...Sarah who I used to go to school with and be like "Hey! Not spoke to you in like 7 years but omg how's life???" Whereas on Facebook that would probably be completely acceptable. Society is becoming increasingly isolated. Anyone ever seen the movie "Surrogates?" It's gonna end up like that man. We would probably all rather sit at our computer screens and message each other or text each other than actually talk to our friends in person. Maybe we're all just too lazy to make the effort. The thought is depressing. I'm hereby bringing back the telephone call and going to make a special effort to call people more often instead of texting.
Ironic that it took me losing my phone and there by nearly all my internet access to make this epiphany. But the internet clearly still has a bit of a hold on me because I felt the need to come online and proclaim my little epiphany to anyone that would care to read this crazy rant. Maybe I like to pretend LJ is different. Maybe I need to feel like someone actually cares about my thoughts. Ha.
Anyway before I truely get thrown in the nuthouse, I must say that Download was disappointing this year. Yes I said it. No pretending "OMG I had an awesome time" so I can make people feel jealous or so I can pretend our camp of 50 was better than McGuigans camp of 10. It had it's ups and downs but over all it just didn't even out. The weather was absolutley crazy for a start. Scorching sun half the time so I ended up crispy burnt and then terrential rain the other half resulting in about 5 inches deep of mud all over the festival (which was the thing that stopped probably about half the camp going to see Aerosmith and also stopped myself seeing Steel Panther) Add to that very uncomfortable sleeping and the lack of clean toilets and that makes for a grumpy Ruth. I tried for the most part to just roll with it. It's a festival and I knew I wasn't in for a night at the Hilton. And it worked, there were alot of really awesome and funny moments and some great bands. On the last night we tried to make our own gazebo out of an air bed and tent poles and when that (obviously) didn't work we stole the English camps gazebo and graffitied it. It was more fun than it probably sounds. On top of that there were also some crackin bands that I enjoyed more than I anticipated. The Deftones and Rage were particularly good, and I'm not a big fan of either of those. But they really rocked. The Thursday and Saturday were probably the best days. Thursday was shitty weather but the banter in the orange tent was fab.
Corky (talking about rage songs): These people always say fuck you to the man in charge and I recently realised the man in charge is my dad.
Lol. No more bongs for Corky.
My biggest regret was not visiting camp John Locke when I had the chance. I felt that our camp was fun at points but that overall I was camping with aquaintances rather than friends. I would rather have 3 close friends than 50 aquaintances any day.
On one final note I would like to tell people who are going to the cinema in the near future NOT to go and see "Black Death" starring Sean Bean. Worst film I have seen in a very long time.
Talk to you later folks.