The Facebook You Think You Know

Sometimes I imagine that my social media accounts are like hotlines and I am the receptionist sitting there, waiting for a post, inbox, tweet and so forth, et cetera et cetera, ad infinitum (latin is such a sexy language) Well, that is one of the main symptoms of becoming a social media junkie, a breed of internet goons I had looked down upon not so long ago. But I’m only a social media junkie when Im idle. Coz in Earth 2.0, an idle mind is Mark Zuckerberg’s workshop.

 Every since you set up that account and bought a touch-screen smart phone that makes it a practically brainless activity to surf through a newsfeed, you will always feel the urge to know what people are saying. Most of the time, it isn’t much. But we are such nosy ones.  So we always have to know. Sometimes you end up knowing things about people you don’t know. Weird. Huh? Which comes first? Knowing a guy, or knowing what a guy thinks?

Here’s a tough challenge (or a resolution, for those who are romantically in love with those things.). Why don’t you try knowing, and by knowing I mean meeting, all the people you are friends with on Facebook in 2014. Not much, just a face to face that will lead to a tete a tete. You don’t have to treat them or bone them or anything spectacular like that. Just meet and greet. And if you don’t want to meet them, unfriend them. See how real it gets, just for the thrill.