Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Dudes and Facebook Status Updates

I have said before that I think it is really unnecessary, and rather effeminate for a man to spend a surplus of time on facebook. For one thing, it really is set up to cater more towards women. Photo albums, and new profile pics, and updates on peoples personal business, and instant chats. (Did we really need another medium of instant internet communication? Fuck no.) The whole thing is really just one big public exercise in vanity.
Prior to the days of the internet this whole arena of social customs was typically reserved to women, and the softer, more gossipy variety of males that normal dudes spent a good amount of time making fun of in high school. I mean really before facebook when was the last time a dude showed you pictures he took of himself doing anything? If your answer is never, congratulations you probably have normal male peers in your life.
But it's one thing to be on facebook, after all there are broads on facebook and dudes will go wherever the broads are, that's the nature of things. But it starts to become a bit too much when dudes assimilate so much to the largely feminized facebook culture that they start to do shit that they really need not do. Case in point, status updates. Now I can let the odd update slide here and there if something notable happens, but other than that how much shit goes on during the course of your day that you think is so fucking special that everyone else needs to know about it? A man should have no need to do hourly, daily, or even semi-daily status updates on facebook that shit is girly. Seriously? What real man that you respect do you know that has so much shit he wants to tell you about his day that he would deliberately get on an online social networking site, type that dumb ass shit, and post it for all his buddies to see? And if he does choose to do this, it better be the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life, otherwise you've just entered the realm of the man-turned-bitch. If you are updating your facebook status routinely, you are a bitch. Who the fuck cares what you're doing?
As a man, you should be at work, or school. And if you're at either one of these places I already know what the fuck is going on, and so does every other man on the planet who isn't a bitch. You're at work, work/class sucks, you're hungry, you saw a hot ass chick with some big breasts and a fat ass that you want to fuck but probably won't, and now you're ready to go home. It really is that simple.
It's always been socially acceptable for girls/women to have more to say about their day to day operations. Look no further than your own relationships, or your parents, or even TV. That beer commercial where the chick comes home and wants to "vent" and her knucklehead dude thinks she's talking about some stupid fucking beer can with a slot in it. (By the way this is how you know you make a shit product if you have to try to sell people on the fucking container it comes in.) But all she wanted to do was tell him about her day, cause her day is much more dramatic than his. How? I have no fucking idea but I don't care, that's the way it is, and we should leave it that way. But this is no excuse for men to start bitching about their days, nobody wants to hear that shit. A grown man whining? Fuck that. You shouldn't do it in real life, and you shouldn't do it on the internet. Keep that shit to yourself and man the fuck up.
I'm out.

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