Comments | sealwhiskers: A facebook moment that froze time

sealwhiskers

A facebook moment that froze time

Jan 21, 2012 00:26

I came home after a long (but good day) and did some internetzing just to wind down, and then I guess I made the mistake of logging on to faceboob. (which I don't check into that terribly often, maybe a few times a week or so). You know how faceboob makes "friend suggestions" for you periodically...well today was epic ( Read more... )

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kejn January 21 2012, 14:43:53 UTC

i don't miss my FB account at all, except for some peoples' pics that i don't get to see anymore. thought about reopening an account for that reason only, but the whole idea of supporting FB again (even with a profile without any information on me) is too much right now.

sealwhiskers January 21 2012, 15:57:01 UTC

If in doubt, avoid and listen to your instincts. I myself need to re-learn this lesson periodically. Instinctive signals of doubt, against what the mainstream seems to be doing are often right about something, I myself recently relived this lesson.

asakiyume January 21 2012, 15:20:20 UTC

Ughhh, shuddering at the thought, particularly, of that guy. Really. Horrible.

sealwhiskers January 21 2012, 16:02:07 UTC

It was eery, I tell you. It's the weirdest feeling, seeing ppl you know did horrible things to others, just moving around society, having kids, acting "normal".

That's the darkest fairy tale of them all, that people who look good, don't act good in many cases. The slytherins, rumpelstitskins and baba yagas of the world in reality look like you and me.

asakiyume January 21 2012, 16:12:45 UTC

Yeah. I have So Many Thoughts on that. Contradictory ones and messy ones.

idemandjustice January 21 2012, 16:22:28 UTC

This is why I have my FB pretty thoroughly locked down. But even blocking people can be annoying, when I see conversation threads where people are clearly replying to the creepy jerk I have blocked.

And the one guy you mention... this is why I'm always disgusted by people who say they have a friend who was "falsely accused" of rape. I unfriended one guy on here a couple of years ago; he's a member of the Camarilla and lives in Colorado Springs, and I'd thought he was nice until he thankfully showed me my error.

sealwhiskers January 21 2012, 16:36:52 UTC

Hey, you know how it is with the populace, if a guy is funny and friendly and popular, nothing else matters, right? Keep your eyes shut against anything that may challenge the status quo.

/sarcasm

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sealwhiskers January 21 2012, 23:57:19 UTC

2-3 years ago, I was on fb much more than today. I'm barely there today, if it wasn't for some long distance friends, I would dismantle altogether. Hadn't been on for a month, over the holidays, didn't miss it one bit.

gyzki January 22 2012, 03:12:41 UTC

Never have joined the Facebook movement. From time to time I almost feel like going where all the cool kids seem to be, but then I just imagine things like this. And now you say things like this happen for real, not just my worst-case scenario? The cool kids can have fun without me; LJ is a social enough medium for me, I meet enough interesting people here.

sealwhiskers January 22 2012, 03:19:57 UTC

To be fair, there are those who like fb and get in touch with a bunch of ppl they had lost contact with. But eventually most who are there, will see ppl they would rather have liked to stay in the dark about. And then we have that whole business with their policies and the privacy and all that...