TMFBI

= Too Much Facebook Information.


I had a catch up with an old friend from school yesterday and, needless to say, we started having a little gossip about what our mutual friends had been up to since we had departed ye old fancy establishment. Obviously, we had kept up with a few people so had no problem filling in the gaps with certain folk but when it came to pure nosiness we ended up talking about what we had seen on facebook. Isn't that a bit weird? That we can tell you about somebody's life completely from their posting on a social networking site?
Obviously it depends on the person's background/schooling/area of birth/whether they were organised enough to sort out internet in their home but the modest (and religious) folk tend to keep themselves to themselves a bit more and actually see their mates in person, or play computer games, but for plenty of people it is a tool to boast to what I'm sure they believe is the whole world. And when I say boast I mean jump up in the air waving their arms screaming "OVER HERE".
Now sure, if Gaddafi had had facebook or twitter in his last few days I would have been on that quicker than you can say "Good Riddance" but for everyone else who just isn't that interesting yet (key word being yet) I don't really understand what the point is. My friend eventually admitted blocking people off his news feed that he was still friendly with and still very much liked but found "pointless", "dull"" and "self-centred" on facebook.
Now, hey, we all have faults - I write a blog about my life (which he called "arsey", and I certainly can be) but it's not something I do every two hours of every day because I know people would rather claw their own eyeballs out than read about what I had for breakfast or how hammered I got last night or what my Halloween costume looks like two days in advance. Or at least, I hope they would.
Sure, I screamed the place down with shock when I was told a girl in my year had had a baby two weeks previously but when I was greeted with the chorus of: "How did you not know that? It's all over facebook!!" I responded with an answer along the lines of : 'we never spoke so I deleted her ages ago..' Obviously this was met with shock by some - does that mean my friend count is lower than the average? God forbid.
I'm as good a gossiper as the next but it's much juicier to find something out from the horse's mouth than from a URL.


And anyway, all of the above is exactly what Twitter was built for.