We're Ruining It For Them

Let's get one thing straight. Things that teenagers do are cool. Things that adults do...not so much. Yes, as I mentioned here, I signed on to Facebook recently, but now I'm seeing why a young person will soon run like hell from the very thing that once gave him/her a reason to live.

It's written in stone. When adults adopt anything from the generation below them, it loses any shred of coolness. It's always been that way, and it always will. I can remember when a neighbor, Mr. Moore, did his version of the twist in front of us kids. I knew right then and there, I never wanted to do that dance again. And so it goes.

Listen up all you adults out there, and you know who you are, Facebook is Facebook. It's not a blog, but more importantly, it's not your own personal blog. So if you want to update "what you're doing" once or twice a day, that's niiiiice. But if you feel the need to write in that space four or five times in a twelve hour period...GET A BLOG (or maybe a life) for Christ's sake! Nobody gives a good goddamn what you're doing every minute of every day. If your life is so fucking interesting, bite the bullet and start a blog. Otherwise, back the fuck off! I don't care that "Christine just opened a can of pinto beans for dinner," nor what effects those beans may have had on her world. That's just Facebook abuse, pure and simple, and it's the main reason why the whole concept has lost it's cool.