“He is a party-boy.” She said, staring at me from across the couch, running her blonde hair through her fingers.
“How do you know that?” I asked. “You just met him last night… he seemed fairly normal at the bar.”
Blondie: “Because I facebook’d him. I saw his pictures.”
Me: “Why did you have to do that, it just ruins it.”
Blondie: “I know, but when I saw the pictures, he was just drunk in every one of them.”
But isn’t that what Facebook photos are all about? If not to make people think we have better lives then we actually do, then what?
I was hoping that this “fake online life” craze had ended when MySpace started to go downhill. As one of my good friends put it, not switching to Facebook and staying with MySpace was like, “being the last one at that late night bar, where you are mid-dancing with your drink up in the air and suddenly you look around and realize that everyone has left.”
I know that whatever you put in your online Facebook or MySpace profile, is not the real you, but more an exaggerated, better looking version of you. If we all judged each other based on our online profiles you would think most of us had taken up residence at some Cancun foam party.
It is not as though Facebook or MySpace captures the “real” moments of my life. Moments when I am sitting at home reading- “Single Women Who Cry Every Night” -while clipping my snaggle-toe nail.
In fact I am fairly certain this boy’s drunken photos are simply a cover up for some kind of childhood abuse (I like to think positively). ..Or, as I assertively told her, to make up for, “his small penis”.
She claimed she hadn’t seen to yet to judge. That is rubbish.
Drunk frat photos are code for an alcoholic mother.
Similarly, drunk sorority photos imply abusive daddy issues.
I told her not to judge a book by its cover. And I meant it too, because this kid is hot, and who needs personality when your cover looks like Dean McDermott? No one. Not one damn person.
If she could eliminate boys now based on facebook, what is next? People eliminating each other based on some type of online “dating” site where they are forced to post pictures, bio information and whether they're single or divorced or what not? …. That sounds like crazy year 3000 talk. We are not that advanced here.
I myself, don’t go for all that online stuff. I like to judge people the old fashioned way. …by how much money they have.
