Here's an interesting analogy:
Suddenly it seems so appropriate that Facebook was invented on a college campus. The more one reflects on it, the more the Facebook experience resembles what goes on in the hallways of college dormitories at universities everywhere: personal boundaries are reduced, many try on new slightly new personas every other week, and late-night bull sessions abound (leading to bleary-eyed mornings that also happen after too many late nights on Facebook). Like Facebook, in college we all had a “wall,” which enabled us to present ourselves to new “friends”—mostly through cheap posters purchased the first week of classes. We even had those little note boards on our doors where passers-by, even if only of casual acquaintance, could leave messages for all to see. Today, those non-digital forms of social networking all seem so 1999.Actually, Facebook is BETTER than dorm life. The hall doesn't permanently smell like burnt microwave popcorn, some idiot isn't playing Dave Matthews Band at all hours of day and night, and there aren't skeevy cowards stealing your food out of the hall refrigerator even though you'd clearly put your name on your stuff. How I wish I could have just hit the "Remove" or "Delete" button for all that. Oh, and let's not get started on the campus phenomenon that everyone has encountered at least once in dorm life: the Psychotic Roommate/Neighbor. Am I right? Yeah, I'm right.
2 comments:
Yes, now that you mention it, that makes sense.
If dorm residents could vote on one law and its attendant punishment, food thieves would hang in the residence halls' courtyard and their bodies would swing for a week as a message to any other thinking-about-stealing folks around.
And 'skeevy' - cool. Thanks for increasing my vocabulary today! I plan to use this at every opportunity for the next week.
I know people do all sorts of stupid stuff in dorms, but stealing other people's food is just LOW, man!
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