Well, today I was looking at my facebook account, looking at all the pictures that had been changed, and what people said they were doing, all the fucking applications, everything in its totality, and goddamn if it isn't the new epidemic of our generation. It actually makes me look forward to a depression if this is really the type of shit people are going to spend their time on. Look, in high school it was kind of cool in a nichy kind of way to be a fucking wierdo and be totally into something as ridiculous as flan or calligraphy, but at some point, our generation needs to grow up and move out of the self identification phase.
Because if it isn't that, exactly what the fuck is it? I mean, I have friends (admittedly, I do have an account--fuck) that have over 1,000 photos of themselves and their buddies--I mean, jesus christ, we get it, you love yourself, you think that you are the most beautiful person ever, and you by god are going to prove it by constantly posing for every goofy little quirky fucking ridiculous picture you can...it's either that, or these people are so insecure that they have to build a different person, a facade to show the world so that they can prove they're...I don't know what exactly, because its not real.
But I guess this is the way of our society. People are just obsessed with themselves. Everything is visual. Everyone is special. People are always having just the greatest of times...at least on the surface, because in reality, everyone is spending thousands of hours downloading pictures of themselves onto facebook, updating their status, and engaging in fake endeavors like being a fucking ninja or a pirate, instead of acting like adults. Haha, look at those goofy pictures you took getting drunk on Zima, boy I bet that was fucking fun, because that's what people do, right? They get drunk on Zima like a bunch of fucking sissies and then have the where-with-all to take staged pictures of themselves...a truly precious moment captured in time.
And look, I'm going to have to take special umbrage with the female gender here: I mean, my god ladies, really? Really? Jesus christ, do you have an idea of how vain it is for you to post every picture you take of yourself? How many is enough? Are you that insecure? Look I am not saying there aren't guys out there that take a lot of pictures of themselves, but there aren't many, and the ones that do probably don't have a lot of male friends, because quite frankly, it's obnoxious, and if a dude pulled out a camera and started taking a bunch of pictures posing with his friends...well, I'll let you draw your own conclusions, but suffice it to say, it just doesn't exude much confidence or purposefulness.
I mean, honestly, if you're good looking, people aren't going to think you're anymore good looking because you take a bunch of pictures of yourself; and vice-versa, if you are ugly or fat, people are going to notice that--you're not somehow pretty because you managed to hide your paunch from the camera. You're just a bad person, because you spent time doing something that was dumb and useless, when you could have gone to the gym, pauncho villa.
The fact is that there are times when snapping a picture is perfectly acceptable--like when you go on vacation somewhere you've never been before, or on a truly special occasion, like a birthday or a wedding. At the same time, you don't need to take hundreds to capture the memory--a few will go a long way. When it gets to be that people start taking fucking pictures every 5 minutes, you have to ask yourself, "am I living for me, or am I living for my facebook photo album."
Moreover, believe it or not, no one really gives a fucking shit. The fact is that the people that put together these elaborate, arrogant photo albums take much more stock in their own profile than in anyone else's, and that includes me, you, and everyone else. The point is, even if people spend only a 10 minutes a day on their facebook, they are spending their time doing something that is completely useless. And from just the casual look of it, people are spending a whole lot more time than that on there.
Let me break it down this way...someday, we are all of us going to go into the ground, and either we are going to stay there and be food for worms, or the deity you've selected from the pantheon of possible religions is going to be fucking pissed that you spent your time being as vain as can fucking be by creating yet another you, when you could have spent your time worshipping, voting for Republicans (right...right you crazy fucking idiots!), helping the poor (the opposite of voting for Republicans), practicing self-denial, or performing some otherwise holy activity.
Fuck, at least start a blog or something...
