dudes. in trying to expound on the stupendousness of fbook timeline, i think i've fallen prey to that which i dislike most and am so confused by.
i want. i strongly desire. i kind of really need. to overshare. on facebook.
i find myself drawn to wanting to tell the world the year that i got glasses. (1994, by the by. then contacts two years later, in 1996, after so much begging.)
i want to list all the great internships i had in college and get disappointed when there isn't an available "internship" life event button.
i'd like to blame these desires on my ample amounts of time available during the daily 11-2 rest time that we take here in cambodia.
i'd like to blame these desires on the pleasure i get from organizing, and the visual organizing that timeline allows oneself.
i'd like to blame these desires on the coolness of being able to have a small little space where i can capture all the little events in my life, add a picture, and tell the story of me.
which leads me to ask, how is that all that different from having a small little space like this blog where i share little events in my life, add a picture, and attempt to tell a story about things to happen to me.
is it shameful because i'd be sharing it with everyone, like potential employers and people from high school i haven't actually spoken a word to in nearly nine years?
is it shameful because it can appear to be a weird sort of bragging?
or is it shameful because all of it's narcissistic- this little blog, that little facebook timeline, and even this little post extolling the shame of oversharing?
i'm going to go ponder such questions while i add my nose piercing to my timeline. 2004, for those that want to know. after i met chris, and he begged me not to do it, like i begged my mom for contacts years before.
what say you to the idea of oversharing on facebook, specifically, and narcissicism, in general?
I also LOVE fb timeline. It's wonderful. I think that it's so appealing because nostalgia is a very powerful thing. I try to think of it this way: long before the internet and blogs, people were scrapbooking about their lives and showing their children's pictures to people who didn't care. Now we're doing an elevated technological version of that. And since everyone does it, there's no shame, Right?? :)
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely hard to know where to draw the line of when to stop sharing (though thank goodness you stopped before 'got glasses'!! ... you did, right? Yes you did, I checked). I try not to share much of anything at all on facebook really, because I just don't like that it's so easily culled for information. And not just information on a few years, as a blog, but an entire life! Plus way fewer people read my blog than see my FB profile. I'm not sure why, but I definitely feel like there's a difference between FB and blogs. Though maybe not... hm, off to ponder.
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