Monday, May 4, 2009

diary of a twentysomething

Nothing could be more alienating to someone in the midst of a crisis than a tool like Facebook.

“All sorts of half-forgotten acquaintances and abandoned friendships reappear in this spreadsheet of potential reasons to feel terrible about yourself. If you’re as petty as I am, you spend a lot of Facebook time gauging your own feelings of inadequacy in direct relation to other people’s success. All these people you couldn’t give a shit about a couple of years ago are now these omnipresent benchmarks and counterpoints to measure against whatever you have or haven’t got going on in your life.”

like that? read this: http://www.eyeweekly.com/article/55882