Saturday, January 15, 2011

Facebook Events

I don't know how many of you pay attention to the new Facebook features but there is one that actually makes me more aware of how uncool I am (to some at least). I am not sure what the feature is called but essentially it shows you what events your friends are going to or ones they have created. Now, say you are minding your own business, maybe playing some Mafia Wars or Family Feud, and you look up at the top right of your window. You see that Soandso has created Event X! You click on the event and you see that pretty much all of your friends are going...except you. Why are you not going? Because you never got an invite (or an evite in this situation I suppose). In the earlier days of Facebook it didn't matter if your friends had an event and you weren't invited. Chances are you were already doing something on the night it occurred so you didn't have a chance to get pissy but NOW, now you KNOW when this even will occur. It is a terrible situation and I think it is one more piece in Mark Zuckerberg's evil plan to make everyone hate each other.
Picture this, say you are dating or at least talking to some girl. You really like her and you think things are going well. So you're on Facebook one evening and you see this friend event notification pop up on your screen. You click it to see who is going and low and behold your pseudo girlfriend is going. Now, you never got an invite so you're a little hurt because the person organizing it is a friend of yours. So you wait for the girl to invite you as a date. This never happens. Instead you spend the night playing Call of Duty with a bunch of 13 year olds that are up WAY past their bedtime and then you watch Saturday Night Live. The next day you get on Facebook to check your notifications and you see someone has posted pictures from the event. You check out the pictures and there it is. A collection of pictures of your pseudo girlfriend making out with some other guy...or girl. I may be creating a slippery slope here but you can't deny that this is a very real possibility.

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