Social Media

To My Dear Readers,

I am not a social person, no.  I am fantastically awkward around almost anyone and maybe this is what this whole blog is about.  Actually the blog is about all of the weird project THH and I are cooking up–our dreams to become the best Notary Publics in the tri-county area, some sort of get-rich-quick scam and a do a little research that will expose the seedy underbelly and poor grammar of the christian gay-therapy programs.  I am off-topic again.  So this is what I wanted to say:

I may have to leave the comfort of freeloading off my parents soon.  See, I have a job interview coming up and this was largely unplanned for.  I should not have gotten this interview in the first place.  Why?  I’m not actually qualified to do anything.  I have two degrees that have prepared me for sitting in meetings and pretending to look interested, making sarcastic remarks about poor research designs and, frankly, very little else.  The jobs that I am and have been applying for (in the advertising sector) all want whizzes in something called social media.  That would be the facebooks and the myspaces, the blogs and the youtubes.  hell, they even seem to give a shit about twitter.  Though my partner in crime is actually quite a fan of one of these forms of communication, if one could call it that, I really can’t get into it.  Although, here I am typing up this blog post.  I tried to narrow down what I dislike about these social spaces and I haven’t really been able to come up with much.  Perhaps it is the broadness of scope that really bothers me.  Everyone is connected to everyone else, people tell everyone  everything about themselves.  There is so much information, whether pertinent or not, that it is overwhelming; if you meet a new person and then friend them on facebook, without even speaking to them you can learn their favorites, or what they are doing at this moment, their clubs, their relationships.  In a way, this can be good–if you know what you are looking for in people, then you can quite easily find those who have what you don’t like and weed them out.   There is that nagging voice in my head now, so let’s tune her in and see what she is saying. She says:

But Ghastly Girl, this is for fun, ok?  Why do you have to be so serious about everything?

Good call, Lady Voice in My Head, good call.  Why can’t I just have fun and enjoy social media?  I’ll tell you why.  It’s because I am, in fact, quite boring, and I really don’t like fun.  So there you go.

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