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Some people are so fucking fake.
It's amazing really.
Oh. And I think the trend from LJ being popular to Myspace and Facebook being popular says a lot about our culture. For example, because Myspace is designed for pictures more than LJ is, and because you can put up a picture and have people comment it and tell you how good you look and how cool you are, Myspace is more popular. It's a quicker self-esteem boost to have someone look at your pictures and tell you how pretty you are and how popular you are than to have someone read your mind spillings and your innermost thoughts in word and have them give you feedback.
It's all about immediate gratification and shallowness. Is that a word? Anyway ... I think that our generation is really about immediate gratification. I wonder if all generations are the same and I think ours is different for some reason?
I was having the same kind of thought about violence in the media and in film. For example, it used to be groundbreaking to show a suggestion of a murder by stabbing. And now it's nothing to show the detail of someone having their head blown off. Were people more used to violence in real life, or has it just changed in the media? Maybe people used to be more used to every day gruesomeness and now we're not used to blood even when it comes from the animals we kill to put on our plates. Now we're used to digitally-created human death. Are we shocked if we see it in real life?
I'm done.
Actually I'm going to post again on a different idea ... this was all from yesterday, July 26 ... and it's 11:11 .... make a wish!!!!
It's amazing really.
Oh. And I think the trend from LJ being popular to Myspace and Facebook being popular says a lot about our culture. For example, because Myspace is designed for pictures more than LJ is, and because you can put up a picture and have people comment it and tell you how good you look and how cool you are, Myspace is more popular. It's a quicker self-esteem boost to have someone look at your pictures and tell you how pretty you are and how popular you are than to have someone read your mind spillings and your innermost thoughts in word and have them give you feedback.
It's all about immediate gratification and shallowness. Is that a word? Anyway ... I think that our generation is really about immediate gratification. I wonder if all generations are the same and I think ours is different for some reason?
I was having the same kind of thought about violence in the media and in film. For example, it used to be groundbreaking to show a suggestion of a murder by stabbing. And now it's nothing to show the detail of someone having their head blown off. Were people more used to violence in real life, or has it just changed in the media? Maybe people used to be more used to every day gruesomeness and now we're not used to blood even when it comes from the animals we kill to put on our plates. Now we're used to digitally-created human death. Are we shocked if we see it in real life?
I'm done.
Actually I'm going to post again on a different idea ... this was all from yesterday, July 26 ... and it's 11:11 .... make a wish!!!!