why are these people web-enabled?

[seperis]

Okay, level with me--the point of Facebook is to:

a.) be annoyed by your mother's obsession with getting gifts for Farmville.
b.) learn to hate fish every time you look at your feed.
c.) so people you met before the age of reason, or fuck, the age of puberty, can track you down like some kind of goddamn dark magic GPS, because I refuse to believe anything as beautiful as computers could be responsible for this shit.
d.) ex-boyfriends from non-English speaking countries who were instrumental in your growth and development can friend you. No reason.
e.) a long-lost friend is into otaku-like beliefs but in relation to the Fae (yes, nymphaea1, I am not joking, I have evidence) and sends you pictures (EVIDENCE). Of her wings (NOT KIDDING).
f.) Fundamentalist relatives. I'll just leave that as-is.
f.) give you a glimpse of what hell will be like in terms of population. Yeah, this.

Guess how many of these are happening to me right now?

Okay, showtime. Beat that list. I totally dare you.

Comments

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

I have had people try to friend me because they "wanted to know if we were kin" (gee, guess what, we weren't), and I've had people try to friend me just so they could add me to their f*cking farm. (Here's a shirt for you: http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/geek/no_one_cares.html?catid=79&cs=2&csd=79)

If I don't know them, or they're work-related people that I have no other contact with, I don't friend them.

I've had to block about a zillion applications--you'd think people would know better. (I agree that FB has become the new AOL.)

BUT, I get to keep up with friends I wouldn't know anything about--one has cancer, for instance--so I still find it useful.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I hate the apps. But yeah, there are some benefits.