Posts tagged Facebook
Facebook is Kafka with a thumbs-up button.
Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook.
It smooshes together your work self and your home self, your past self and your present self, into a single generic extruded product. It suspends the natural process by which old friends fall away over time, allowing them to build up endlessly, producing the social equivalent of liver failure. On Facebook, there is one kind of relationship: friendship, and you have it with everybody.
Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time
(via megpickard)
I gave her a live facebook response… a blank look before quickly moving on to another subject.
Right now, there are more people harvesting fake corn on Facebook than there are total users of Twitter.
Noted elsewhere
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“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” — Buddha
[Photo taken at Point Pleasant Park in Halifax,...
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“Why not shoot yourself, actually, rather than finish one more excellent manuscript on which to gag the world?”— Annie Dillardddd
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”—
Ernest Hemingway
Truer words were never spoken. If you’re a sleep...
