Transcript of a Gmail chat I had with an avid Facebook user

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<p>“Facebook is like life: pointless”</p>

<p>me: Why do you love Facebook so much? Is it because you’re young, foolish and impressionable?</p>

<p>Facebook Lover: Um. It’s an amusing and pointless waste of time. It doesn’t work the same way email does, because other people are seeing and responding to our messages to each other...it’s more like a messageboard.</p>

<p>me: So most of your friends know each other?</p>

<p>FL: Most of my friends on Facebook know at least some of my other friends on Facebook.</p>

<p>me: While posting, do you ever slap yourself on the forehead and think “Look what I’m doing! I am SO jobless!!!”</p>

<p>FL: Of course. That’s why it’s fun...we’re all completely aware of how pointless it all is. It’s a bit like life in general.</p>

<p>me: You realise that while you’re pretending to be so clever and “deliberately pointless”, you’re really just as addicted to the evil thing as anyone else is?</p>

<p>FL: Um. No, not really.</p>

<p>me: Well, it’s time you did.</p>

<p>FL: No, I refuse! How dare you try to make me self aware?
It could be worse! I could be religious!</p>

<p>me: What do you have against religious people? Have you ever started a group called “I Hate Religion”?</p>

<p>FL: No...should I?
Facebook is just like...reading a Mills and Boon novel after a day of studying :P</p>

<p>me: I’ll use that quote. “This precocious teenager likens Facebook to reading an M&B after college. However, she still refuses to admit that she’s an addict, preferring to hide behind a veneer of delusional pretentious intellectualism.”</p>

<p>FL: I may never speak to you again!</p>

<p>me: Sure, why speak when you have FACEBOOK?</p>

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<p>Um. I take it you are the type of person who is constantly in their room studying and doesn't much hang out with friends?</p>

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<p>Um, does anyone else immediately think of "college confidential addiction" parallels when reading this?</p>

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<p>Me, so much. CC is my myspace.</p>

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Um. I take it you are the type of person who is constantly in their room studying and doesn't much hang out with friends?

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<p>Because we all know that you aren't a good person unless you "hang out" with "friends".</p>

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<p>Locking yourself in a room isn't a great idea. Not one bit, you need to get out and spend time with friends.</p>

<p>I need to start taking my own advice more often.</p>