Fuck Facebook and adult life. I liked Myspace and teenage where I could do wherever the fuck I wanted. When everyone I know is on the Internet, it blows! Chick is spreading her legs wide open in picture (to match up feet spread with some guy =S) Dude comments "Is that an invitation?" she goes: "lol an rsvp is required" And I want to say "Jeez, I sure hope no party crashers come" But I don't want to stop being a nice guy. +_+
Fuck being a nice guy. (I didn't think of the pun until after I had typed that lol) That was funny. You should post it. Sometimes being a smartass can work to your advantage. You'd be surprised how many people will like you for it.
It's the people that will dislike me for it that are the problem. It's not that I want to be liked -- it's that I don't want my current reputation trashed. (For followers of my e-persona -- I am a nice guy in person =P) Um.. what pun though?
I feel you man... For some reason, everyone I know's parents have found the need to befriend all of their kids friends, and when I don't accept, they find me in person and tell me to check my requests. It's fuckin anoying. True story (I swear, it's seriously true): once upon a time, one of my friends posted a status saying something like, "fuck my life, and fuck my boss too" I forget the exact circumstance, but his boss did something stupid and caused him a lot of problems. This kid had just turned 18 about a week before this whole event) Upon seeing this, an "overly religious" (is the nicest way I can put it) woman from his church printed out the page, brought it to church and showed his mom. His mom didn't really care at all, and pretty much just said, "my son's 18, there's nothing I can do about it" The woman reacted by showing it to all of her friends at church, whose kids are no longer allowed to hang out with my friend. I'll admit that it's not the smartest thing to post on a public site, (because of the "boss" thing) and my friend didn't actuly give a fuck if the kids from his church hung out with him, or if their parents liked him, but it's still pretty retarded that I can't say something on facebook without it being looked at by every facebook stalking parent I know.
I pared my facebook account down from some ridiculous number of acquaintances during my undergrad to maybe 45 people now, and with pretty strict privacy controls. They kind of make a big deal about being careful on it in teaching school.
Well, I was always too meek in person, and then I went the other extreme with my Internet personality -- and now I'm trying to find some sort've balance.
Internet personality? I always wondered about that sounds like an excuse for people to live a little vicariously through other people Would you consider yourself on this site as you are in real life? You don't seem meek at all for me, you have a good habit of fighting the informed argument actually!
I meant this one that you're talking to, bud. Not a fictional persona, just a part of the natural spectrum of overall being. It is, and I've always wanted to try it so bad, but just can't commit to being someone who isn't me =P I am awkward as hell in real life. I haven't really found a solid state.
RE the OP: To hell with being a nice guy. Whats the point in being liked if they're not liking the real version/real internet personality version of you? Don't be an asshole yeah but don't try to censor yourself either. If you think it, say it. This me is completely different from the real me at the keyboard..... RE The Imaginary Being: I consider you more hysterical(comedic not crazy) than a bastard. I'm pretty sure everyone has an internet personality... Maybe it fades with time, I don't know, but it's the same when you go to a new, real, place. You behave differently until you're comfortable.
Well I think there is definitely some room for change. Hell, get back on Facebook and make the joke dammit!
I'm not outgoing or independent enough to be hated and live in society. One should be free to make crude jokes -- but right now, only the TV is. If she were someone I knew would take the joke the right way, I wouldn't've cared what onlookers thought, cause I would expect her to defend me. The only way for me to learn to be able to speak my mind freely, is for me to learn how to be politely crude, first. On here, I use a shitload of =P smileys and it works, but I have found that on Facebook, people basically ignore it.
Ahhh.... But you are free to make crude jokes, that don't directly attack anyone. The only one saying no is you. You don't need to be outgoing or independent. You only need to remember that sensible people will defend you in the face of a troll or some pissed, flaming n00b (I can't believe I've used n00b in a sentence :sad. You can say what you want and have the right to do so, irregardless of what people may say or think. If you really just don't feel comfortable being 'crude' then maybe you should start small and try practicing cynicism. I'm pretty sure being a cynic is what gave me my morbid sense of humor.... I feel OK being crude with people because of the anonymity I enjoy here and because that seems to be the climate.
