I remember when I was younger and everyone was still down with postage stamps girls from my circle of friends and my Brownie troop would send out those "chain letters" and you had to send it to ten people and blah blah blah. I remember it being fun and exciting and I usually participated in them. Then once the age of the Internet arrived, we got AOL at my house and my friends would send me those e-chain letters that'd say, "ScRoLL aNd MaKe a WiSh!!!" I fucking loved that stuff. I always wished to marry JC Chasez from *NSYNC... kinda glad that didn't come true.
But even so back in those days it was a luxury to go online for at most an hour, go on AIM, talk to my friends for a little bit, and then sign off with a way-cool "g2g" because my mom needed to use the telephone (oh, dial-up). Now I feel like people (including myself) use the internet as the main source of communication. It's always struck me as funny when peoples profiles on Facebook are as lengthy as they are; I came across some girl from my hometown with I think two paragraphs from each section. Why is there this constant need to tell people all these things about yourself?
A few weeks ago one of those little chain letters made many a news article. It was the most passed around chain letter or "Facebook note" in history. I think something like 5 million people participated in this thing. I am so confused as to why on a social networking site where I can read your activities, interests, favorite movies, books, music, quotes AND read your little "about me" section, there is a reason you are writing 25 things about yourself.
I don't give a shit if you prefer your bagels with locks sans cream cheese or if your favorite show is The Hills.
That shit is pointless. What is your passion? Why is your favorite book your favorite book? What's the coolest thing that has ever happened to you, besides like, you getting a free tanning package? Self consumption, mass consumption, I don't care for it.
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