Deconstructing Facebook January 29, 2009
Posted by Onely in Dating, Everyday Happenings, Food for Thought, Pop Culture: Scourge of the Onelys.Tags: bella depaulo, ex-boyfriend on facebook, facebook, game playing, I'm not as good at tagging as Lisa is, marriage mythology, matrimaniacs, polar bear club, profile photos
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It’s a pandemic, people! In the last week, several singles close to me have expressed distress and depression after logging in to their Facebook accounts:
“All my friends have these pictures of them with their spouses; everyone is in a couple except me.” “My ex-boyfriend changed his Status. Now he’s not single but I still am.” Or, worst of all, “My ex friended me and I accepted and sent a nice little note and he sent me a Happy New Year video card of him doing Polar Bear Club and it was thirty seconds of him leaping in the water and then a whole nother minute of some woman towelling him off lovingly with googly eyes oh my god.” (more…)
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