This began circa 1996, when everyone started getting email. I met a girl that went to school a couple of hours away. Cell phone minutes were still as expensive as long-distance land line charges. She only checked her email once a week or so. It just wasn't going to work out.
I appear to be the last person under 30 (and in the civilized world) not on Facebook. I would say it's a lonely existence, but it's not. I thank god every fucking day that I don't have to see what my exes are up to.
I'm currently on the market for a Facebook-hatin' man.
And Twitter? I would dump a fella dead on my porch for bringing up that nonsense.
@DoubleDactyl: Yes! My boyfriend and I hate social networking sites... it's one of the first things we bonded over. Except-- as we both eventually admitted-- it's less about anything to do with exes than going to great lengths to avoid people from high school.
You'd think that refusing to communicate by means other than carrier pigeons and singing telegrams would hamper my love life, but actually I'm up to my eyeballs in novelty sex, and, bonus! Random strangers don't read about it on the internet in real time.
But if your S.O. isn't on Twitter, how are you going to send her passive aggressive messages about infidelity once you break up, and use the service to ask her to end her hotel room party so that you and your mom can sleep? And how are the masses going to be able to get their workday entertainment boost reading about it?
I don't know if this is related, but facebook (along with deeply embedded emotional and abandonment issues) makes it really hard to get over an ex. I mean, in the good ole days when you broke up with someone it was so easy to lose touch and eventually forget about the person. Now, there's a live feed with everything your ex is doing.
@serpentinefire: Do like I did, break ties completely on Facebook. It's stupid to stay friends with them no matter how 'mature' you think you are. I had to endure photos of my ex with somebody els to come to my senses. Don't be an idiot and cut the drama asap.
@serpentinefire: Now, seriously, do none of you know about the "Hide" option? It enables you to never see them unless you specifically go to their Profile page, but also not to get into the drama of unFriending them.
They can always communicate the way my parents did: through the kids. That way, the inability to bond with another human being is passed like a torch from one generation to the next.
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"The whole group were dressed in these great costumes and it looked exactly like something out of Eyes Wide Shut.
"But then one of the organisers announced: 'The moment has come. The spell has begun' and everyone began kissing and having sex.
"To say I was shocked was an understatement."
So let me guess - he only watched the beginning of that scene in Eyes Wide Shut?
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I'm currently on the market for a Facebook-hatin' man.
And Twitter? I would dump a fella dead on my porch for bringing up that nonsense.
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Did he really just change his status to single?!
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