At 11AM my hangover is really kicking, though it didn’t begin to make its presence known until just after I stepped off the elevator at my office. I’m glad I got to work on time. Hell, I’m amazed I woke up on time given that I forgot to set my alarm or plug in my …
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The internet is dangerous, little girl
The internet is an amazing and dangerous place, especially if you’re too young to fully understand the repercussions of posting questionable content online. For two days Tumblr has been ablaze with re-postings of a screen cap from a video of a young girl throwing a puppy into a body of water. Along with the photo …
Open Face(Book), insert foot
The Cosmic Law of the Internet dictates that whenever I post about something on my blog, a relevant internet incident must occur shortly thereafter. A few hours after my post about Facebook ruining friendships went up, someone I went to high school decided to try to get reckless via Facebook chat. Lately I haven’t been …
Facebook: ending friendships one wall post at a time
While I love what the Internet has done to extend my ability to communicate with my friends, I’m realizing it’s hard not to hate it for exactly the same reason. I don’t know when the ability to judge what is (and more importantly, isn’t) appropriate to be posting in public forums became so difficult, but …
The internet is probably ruining your life
The internet is dangerous: Myspace will ruin your friendships over long distance hotties, Facebook will lead to the demise of your most serious relationship to date, reading my blog will probably cause you deep mental scarring. Or in this particular case something much, much worse.
Honesty Box issues, part two
Apparently my response message warranted another (anonymous) reply? No, Julene, it made you ridiculous. You’re rude to people now, you aren’t sarcastic in the funny way anymore, just in the hurtful way. And you ARE holier than thou. Posting on myspace about how people should “wait” until Monday to wish you a happy birthday? How …
Honesty Box issues, part one
Okay let me put this out there from the get-go: I fucking hate Facebook. The stupid applications, the way they’ve overcomplicated the process of uploading photos and how they decided a layout change meant further making things difficult. But they have this little “Honesty Box” application that for whatever reason I added to my profile. …