First Impressions

I think I hate Facebook. Something about it just makes me feel so uncomfortable and inferior. It's so...formal. So cold. It portrays a vast emptiness which makes me feel very isolated when I'm on it. Not like the feeling I get when I log on to MySpace and am instantly connected to an endless "extended network" of friends, loosers, and psycho child molester perverts.

Today was the first day I delved into the empty, soul-stealing world of Facebook. After being a long time, self-proclaimed “MySpace Whore”, thriving in the endless options of rich profile designs, random, pointless bulletins just for the fun of it, and filling out 3 million redundant childish personality surveys, the transition from Myspace to Facebook felt like I'd been taken out of the Garden of Eden and thrown into a sensory deprivation chamber

As I was quickly horrified to learn, everything you do on Facebook - every single thing you do - is promptly announced to your friends in the News Feed. News Feeds on Facebook read something like this: "3:28 PM: Katie ate a sandwich" "3:48 PM Katie brushed her teeth" "3:52 PM Katie neglected to floss". This is not a good thing for indecisive, sometimes impulsive people like me, who post random things one moment, and then later decided that maybe not everyone will get that quip about all the people she killed this weekend being a joke.

Maybe it’s the institutional feeling of all the white “walls” on Facebook that just sucks the creativity and sarcasm right out of me. And what am I without sarcasm? Some blame MySpace for being too open, too encouraging of unrestrained socialization with friends and middle-aged strangers. Blame their unrestrained use of color if you wish, but I think it’s the intuitive set up, and friendly tone of FAQS and help guide that attracts so many.

Yes, the endless hours we MySpace whores spend indulging in the narcissistic pursuits of profiles, public photo albums and blogs may be a little...selfish..and bit of a "waste" of our lives. And yes, a site dedicated to the more extraverted aspects of one's self, real-life relationships and connections does, in theory, sound like a better idea. But fuck that. it's just not as fun.