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Facebook Hollywoodifies Our Lives. And it Shortens Them.

I read news from a friend diving in south africa, participating in the famous london gorilla run and celebrating his daughters fith birthday. – what a life.

Another Friend is posting pictures from Bali, New Zealand, Australia – that are his three holiday-trips in one year.

And friend 3 posts in his statusnotes that he just arrived from Shangai after a short stop in Berlin, is now having food at Vienna airport, shortly before leaving for Barcelona.

Very glamourous lives.

Everything is so spectacular, it’s happening at breakneck speed – and watching makes you feel really poor.

Some distance puts a lot of shine and glamour on many things. So many nice things are happening so fast – it’s really impressive. If you look at the good things only, that is.

Doing that in real life, too, is plain bullshit bingo. But we could look at it as another benefit of using social networks: they make us clean up our lives as if we were attending a party and having a nice conversation.

That’s a pretty good reason to use them anyhow.

Facebook selfdestruction

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I witnessed a major case of selfdestruction via facebook these days: a former colleague posted a few messages abou how curious he was on friday. He was waiting if Friday would be his day of success. If things were really that simple that you just have to tell people that you are the best. That he hoped that finally he would achieve something. He works in the lower management of a worldwide software company. Some frieds were curious and asked, but he did not tell any details. Until friday: that’s when his tone switched to disappointment. And afte having been asked a few times, he – as an actively employed manager at his companny, who even publishes his employer in his facebook-profile – confessed that he had applied for a new job and did not get it. That’s not only stupid, that’s really disloyal and reputation damaging towards his employer. Such a behaviour is a real personal career booster…

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