Facebook is a wonderful tool. In fact, I don't think I can say a bad thing about it. It's intuitive and once you find your way around it it's the perfect tool for keeping in touch with people and staying in the loop.Something that has become apparent of late is the quite humorous theme of Facebook users using their status' to make a point. Often used to get at someone or a group of people without going directly to them and stating their case or airing their grievance, these particular updates used to frustrate me when I was a part of the group they were referring to. However now, they are predicatively petty, boringly immature and make myself and the happy people I choose to surround myself with scoff at their negativity.
But what an interesting self-marketing tool! I find myself picking from my list of the few 'serial sad statusers' most days to see what dribble they have picked over all of the positive things going on in their lives to tell the world about. Diddums. If they just had boring statuses I wouldn't bother, so I guess congratulations are in order for mastering Facebook Marketing 101.
I know I am opening myself up to some serious backlash from this blog post but wouldn't it be funny if this post spurred someone on to change their status to something along the lines of:
"Johnbob hates it when sad people who have nothing to do with their sad lives blog about what people put on their Facebooks." Defensive? Of course not!
Just remember when you're having a shitty day that there is always someone worse off than you. Always. Pick the things that make you happy and tell the world about that. That's what your friends want to read about. Life is full of setbacks, it's how you handle the setbacks that matters.
Happy Facebooking!
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