Buildings & clouds reflecting
in a East London street
Originally uploaded by cherbert.
A friend recently complained that when logging into
Facebook, ~70% of his home page was filled with my "stupid updates
- this isnt twitter man!"
As someone said recently, why be on Facebook if you're going
to update your status? Or see the NYT's piece on ambient awareness.
Because despite the trivial, banal, and seemingly trivial
drivel that can *sometimes* appear as people's status updates, your friends
actually do read this. They may never admit it-- similar to people when asked
which magazines the read would never admit to reading the tabloids at the
check-out points of the grocery store-- but they do read and secretly enjoy
seeing what their friends are doing. We are voyeristic animals, it's as simple
as that.
Here's my what I posted back to my friend about my seemingly
too many status updates (which I bet are on average, or only slightly above
average, for status update frequency across the Facebook user base):
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Think of it this way, I don't post crap, I actually post
cool, interesting things here that I think people might not have seen but that
they would enjoy. In that sense, I'm a "cool" filter or curator who
goes through of all the crap ad shares only the best of the best. You need to
stop and smell the roses every once in a while and that's what I'm doing when I
post a photo, story, link or video, I'm making you pause from the normal 9-5
rat race so that you can remember the more important things in life.