Friday, February 11, 2011

It's high school all over again

Does anyone else ever feel that Facebook, Twitter, etc. mimics high school?  I mean, there are the same players, just on a different field, or medium if you will.
The very popular, as evidenced by their astonishing number of friends, and the enormous number of postings on their wall.
The school slut, who will put out for anyone in order to have a few thousand friends.
The shy kid, tentative in his postings, with only a few so called friends, desperate to crack into the clique of cool people with their travel pictures and self promotion.
And the rebel, who may very well create a completely fake persona just to see what happens and who he or she might meet.
Social media may in fact be the phenomenon it is being made out to be.  I myself would never join a social media site that would have me as a member.