Life in the Subchannel

How much of your communication is absolutely public? How much of what you say is meant for the benefit of everyone around you? I suspect that the last truly honest thing we actually say to the world, is your crying / screaming / cooing as a baby.

Think about it. As a baby, your communications are pretty simple. Not only in meaning (mostly "I'm upset about something", and expecting your mother or other caretaker to solve the puzzle of what upset you by inspection). As a non-sapient little mammal, you're basically screaming in order to irritate the other mammals around you. This should have the effect of making them solve your problem for you.

Now how does this apply to social networking sites?

Frankly I find it creepy to see how much some people share on Facebook. I really do NOT need to know what you did last summer and, frankly, group photos of yourself in a state of deshabille and drunkenness is only funny once... posting 239 photos of the same event (or even worse, different events!) just guarantees all the more that absolutely nobody is going to click through all of them. Not even if you were also there, and especially not if you're the one doing the embarrassing thing in the photo.

Unfortunately, I wish I was right in this case. There are people who will browse through all the pictures again and again, and laugh at how much of an ass they were. Every time, too.

Do I just have a low boredom threshold? To be sure, there are people who listen to kak Afrikaanse backtrack "music" (I use the term loosely).

If I had a point, I lost it while looking at the photos of other people's drunken Facebook party pics.