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ni'k · 02.23.2010, 07:54 AM

i deleted my facebook account. there are sites were you can do a digital suicide thing.

what disgusts me about facebook - on top of what you said - is the fucking pathetic shit people post on it - OMG IM EATING AN ICE CREAM LOL! - it's all this sickening compulsory positivity in triviality - it's people fucking policing themselves - LOOK I'M BEING GOOD AND EATING SWEETS AND LISTENING TO RAMONES - many of the horrible aspects of social life are ampilified by facebook l - i mean you have to ask yourself - who am i listening to this music for? myself or some virtual avatar of me who needs to be seen listening to this music. in facebook world everything becomes for the purpose of maintaining this fucking profile of yourself - this fucking advertisment for yourself that you work at maintaining - what actual substance do you have when you spend your time doing that.

i saw some disgusting shit when i was on that site - people who do nothing but post - EATING ICE CREAM AND LISTENING TO RAMONES, LIFE DOESN'T GET ANY BETTA THAN THIS LOL - and then something like - IM SO DEPRESSED... WHY IS IT ALL SO HARD... - and then just when they are close to having to face the horrible truth of their vapidity and the misery it engenders they post that and all their fucking friends chime in like cops to tell them to cheer up so they can tow the party line of "we are all so happy" - and lo and behold, a few hours later they post something like - OMG WHAT AN IDIOT I WAS EARLIER DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THERE JUST ME BEING STUPID LOL THX TO ALL MY FRIENDS LOL I ATE SOME ICE CRAEM AND NOW IM CHEERED UP LIFE IS GREAT!. i don't like this behaviour at all. you should be pissing people off and weirding them out or trying to make them think but not appeasing the big other and apologising for any deviation from obligatory cheery ignorance.

see what i've learned the hard way - if you are gonna work on maintaining any kind of image or self in this world like you are supposed to, you are basically working on improving yourself as a commodity and inevitably the only freedom your left with is the freedom to destroy it. so people that work really hard on their facebook self are just self defeating.

facebook basically reduces socialising to pure advertising and narcissism - everyone doing everything for appearances and keeping away from each other. you are not going to find out about anything new on their, just more and more of what you already know. these are all the worst aspects of socialising with people. when i was on it i started caring about all this stupid shit - like worrying that i only had something like 20 friends. i actually started to care that people might look at my friend list and see how few people there were on there! stupid but that's the kind of shit you get concerned about if you play those games. so i started adding more and more people i didnt really like but knew, and started kidding myself about them. and i found myself less inclined to post weird shit cos i wanted to appeal to these normals! that's the antithesis of what makes me happy!

i don't think the answer is to withdraw completly - altho this is exactly what i have done - i have socialised all of 3 times this year and won't be going out with those people again. at the moment i literally have no friends - none that i see - my phone has just been off for weeks. and i really don't mind it. i had to get out of all the social traps i had already fallen in with in order to get off drugs anyway so it's probably a good thing. i know i will have to force myself to meet new people when i start going to school again in september but that's cool. i reckon i'll be pretty content by then and can start afresh. i'm sure there are loads of people out there literally being crushed by the pressure of their social commitments and other people leeching their energy - i'm sure a lot of people could really benefit from what i'm doing.

there are so many other possibilities for social activity with the internet but i just don't see them being harnessed. nina powers of the infinite thought blog was talking about internet universities at one point but i havent heard anything new happening with that. we have to get beyond the lone individual only interacting with others to stay alone and strengthen his individuality... i guess that's why i've been playing left for dead 2 literally all day for weeks. it's fun talking to and doing something with people, even if it is just shooting zombies.

02.23.2010, 07:54 AM	#6
ni'k invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,360	i deleted my facebook account. there are sites were you can do a digital suicide thing. what disgusts me about facebook - on top of what you said - is the fucking pathetic shit people post on it - OMG IM EATING AN ICE CREAM LOL! - it's all this sickening compulsory positivity in triviality - it's people fucking policing themselves - LOOK I'M BEING GOOD AND EATING SWEETS AND LISTENING TO RAMONES - many of the horrible aspects of social life are ampilified by facebook l - i mean you have to ask yourself - who am i listening to this music for? myself or some virtual avatar of me who needs to be seen listening to this music. in facebook world everything becomes for the purpose of maintaining this fucking profile of yourself - this fucking advertisment for yourself that you work at maintaining - what actual substance do you have when you spend your time doing that. i saw some disgusting shit when i was on that site - people who do nothing but post - EATING ICE CREAM AND LISTENING TO RAMONES, LIFE DOESN'T GET ANY BETTA THAN THIS LOL - and then something like - IM SO DEPRESSED... WHY IS IT ALL SO HARD... - and then just when they are close to having to face the horrible truth of their vapidity and the misery it engenders they post that and all their fucking friends chime in like cops to tell them to cheer up so they can tow the party line of "we are all so happy" - and lo and behold, a few hours later they post something like - OMG WHAT AN IDIOT I WAS EARLIER DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED THERE JUST ME BEING STUPID LOL THX TO ALL MY FRIENDS LOL I ATE SOME ICE CRAEM AND NOW IM CHEERED UP LIFE IS GREAT!. i don't like this behaviour at all. you should be pissing people off and weirding them out or trying to make them think but not appeasing the big other and apologising for any deviation from obligatory cheery ignorance. see what i've learned the hard way - if you are gonna work on maintaining any kind of image or self in this world like you are supposed to, you are basically working on improving yourself as a commodity and inevitably the only freedom your left with is the freedom to destroy it. so people that work really hard on their facebook self are just self defeating. facebook basically reduces socialising to pure advertising and narcissism - everyone doing everything for appearances and keeping away from each other. you are not going to find out about anything new on their, just more and more of what you already know. these are all the worst aspects of socialising with people. when i was on it i started caring about all this stupid shit - like worrying that i only had something like 20 friends. i actually started to care that people might look at my friend list and see how few people there were on there! stupid but that's the kind of shit you get concerned about if you play those games. so i started adding more and more people i didnt really like but knew, and started kidding myself about them. and i found myself less inclined to post weird shit cos i wanted to appeal to these normals! that's the antithesis of what makes me happy! i don't think the answer is to withdraw completly - altho this is exactly what i have done - i have socialised all of 3 times this year and won't be going out with those people again. at the moment i literally have no friends - none that i see - my phone has just been off for weeks. and i really don't mind it. i had to get out of all the social traps i had already fallen in with in order to get off drugs anyway so it's probably a good thing. i know i will have to force myself to meet new people when i start going to school again in september but that's cool. i reckon i'll be pretty content by then and can start afresh. i'm sure there are loads of people out there literally being crushed by the pressure of their social commitments and other people leeching their energy - i'm sure a lot of people could really benefit from what i'm doing. there are so many other possibilities for social activity with the internet but i just don't see them being harnessed. nina powers of the infinite thought blog was talking about internet universities at one point but i havent heard anything new happening with that. we have to get beyond the lone individual only interacting with others to stay alone and strengthen his individuality... i guess that's why i've been playing left for dead 2 literally all day for weeks. it's fun talking to and doing something with people, even if it is just shooting zombies.
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