When my friend Pinky first signed me up on Facebook last year, I thought it was a great way to stay in touch with family and friends. Lately, I've gotten tired of it. You do find some fun and informative things on it. But there's plenty to get annoyed about. Oh please spare us the typos and grammatical errors, the unfunny and sometimes inappropriate comments. My sister Lynn was telling me about the different types of Facebookers: people who think they're outscooping everyone about current events, the jetsetters who show you hundreds of photos of their travels( I know I'm just jealous of them), the ever-loving and proud parents, the tell-all ones who provide every minute detail of their day to day existence, etc. Now I'm sure I'm all these at various times. It's just interesting that our society now encourages this sort of thing. Everyone's a star on Youtube. Everyone's telling us what they think on FB, what they're doing on Twitter. The self-indulgent nature and frivolity of this culture is astounding. Now before you tell me I'm a hypocrite because of course here I am blogging, I do understand the paradox. I blog because it's therapeutic. And some things, I just want to enshrine and remember for a long time, even if it's just online. It just seems like no one wants to be anonymous anymore. Is this the way humans are evolving?
Who better to talk about this than Stephen Colbert? Here's a funny but truthful bit on his show last night:
