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Asserting Your Social Status With Your Facebook Status
- sp332 17y agoThe commentary, of course, is much more worth reading than the status updates themselves. Interesting to see how old-fashioned conversational techniques make the transition to social microblogging.
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- th0ma5 17y agoI see this going in stages much like blogging itself, where you are trying to prove to yourself something really initially, then at some point you realize that, but you keep going with it. Eventually you gather too many friends to make sense of what is relevant, and you lose complete context of what you should or shouldn't put in there, and then you repeat all of this, or sometimes you just wind up either trolling or spamming with your status. Just my 2 cents!
- blhack 17y agoI'm sorry but this sort of thing is so unbelievably, blatantly obvious when it happens that if you genuinely believe that somebody is "casually" saying these things, you're a social buffoon. One of my friends is notorious for this. She is currently traveling around in Europe...every so often there will be something like "laying on the beech in the south of france today! France Je t'aime!" This sort of thing does not come across as even remotely casual, because it isn't casual. Why did she feel the need to tell everyone that she was in "the south of france"? Why not just "on the beech"? Because that sort of thing is abnormal for her. It isn't something that she normally does. She's bragging, and everybody knows it. Now, I don't mean to pick on my friend (who may actually be fictional), but I just want the people that do this sort of thing to know that it is very, very transparent. You're making yourself look like a fool, and informing the world that the very things you are trying to purport as normal for you are, in fact, novel. That is why you're mentioning them.
- psranga 17y agoHmm, why do you this is showing off? Maybe her friends are interested in casually following her along on her travels?
- tjr 17y agoI would think that posts regarding atypical activity would be the most interesting of posts. If a friend spends 90% of her time chained to a desk in a boring job, then I'd be much more intrigued to read about her trip to another country than to read about yet another day at the office.
- blhack 17y agoYou're right...posts about this are more interesting. The annoying bit is her trying to play it off like this is a normal activity...
- cma 17y agoThis is nothing new; Thorstein Veblen more or less went over all of this back in 1899 in "The Theory of the Leisure Class" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class ).
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