All Things Chill

Have you ever find yourself dancing through life without a care in the world and then, as if someone somehow hacked your brain and a pile of memories – desired or otherwise – rushes to your head to a point where just regular “flashbacks” pale in comparison…?

Huh huh? Well have you?

Well, that’s been happening an awful lot lately since I’ve been in Chicago visiting friends and family. Walking down the same dimly lit streets downtown, seeing the same landmarks as I cruise around the city in a cab, seeing the same ugly faces (read: JORGE), eating the same horrrible fast food that Liana wouldn’t even touch with a 80ft. pole (lol), and arguing with my parents on whether or not I should move back and have babies within driving distance of them (wowzers).

Now, with Facebook’s “‘friends you may know” feature (via Scott Beale of Laughing Squid), you TOO can have all the uncomfortable feelings that I’ve had without leaving your desk… OR PUTTING ON UNDERWEAR. YAY.

Honestly, If you’re over the age of… let’s say TEN, you’ve had Facebook account for a pretty long while now (we’re talking Internet-time here people). You should have already added everyone that’s worth knowing. As a rule, I figure that 95% of the people who are your in your “enter social media networking site here” friend pool were added when said site scanned your various e-mail accounts. Everyone thereafter this step is either…

1. Someone you’d like to work for / with
2. Someone you’d like to be casually romantic with (lol, don’t lie to yourself)
3. Friend of a friend of a friend of a friend…
4. Fluff
5. Your barber

Granted, as time passes, there may be some people that you actually become friends with just by existing (haha HEY DON), but those people are few and far between (unless you’re focusing on option #2 lol). Everyone else is just fluff. FLUFF.

As a generality, I believe that this applies to all social sites (friendster, hi5, myspace, etc.), except for one: Twitter. Now, I won’t ramble on why I think it’s the greatest thing since sliced MEAT… but in this instance, you have your buddies IN REAL LIFE (which you’re completely and utterly bound by heavy shackles by friendship) *AND* people you like to follow because they say interesting things – albeit in 140 characters or less. The cost of following someone boring and undesirable (lol BARBAR ON FACEBOOKZ) on the service is negligible, click unfollow and move on with your life.

Try and do that on MySpace and someone will throw a hissy fit and never talk to you in real life even though they have some of your favorite Tupperware pieces and told you would be their BFFL forever.

But I’m not bitter. LOL.

Ok enough, enough < / rant >

~Spec

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