Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Facebook 101

Today I feel like being snarky. :)

A Good Profile (Nice Girl Version):

1. Your profile picture will feature:
  • your wedding,
  • you and your fiancé or boyfriend,
  • you and your child, or
  • a close-up of your head, preferably at an odd angle.
2. Your work info:
  • You are in school, loving it.
  • You are working, successful and loving it.
  • You are staying home with your child, because it is your choice and you are 100% thrilled about it, not ever because it's harder to find work as a woman with children or because you were paid so little that the cost of alternative child-care is equal to or greater than your former pay. (I'm not saying it always sucks to stay home with your kid. I think parental leave is great. I'm saying there's a bit more to women being the ones who quit their jobs for it than choice.)
  • You are unemployed freelancing.
3. Messages/Wall Posts:
How are you? You are great, because:
  • You just got married, check out the pics.
  • You had X number of children, check out the pics.
  • Your boyfriend is sooooo awesome.
  • You absolutely love your job, every single second of it.
Oh, Facebook. The home of online social interaction, where everything is gender-normative, sanitized, and awesome. I'm successful and happy too, see?? I just have to work on that husband and kids thing. Oh, and a job that makes me tingle with delight.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thats because most of your friends are people you met in Bridal Collage. --ÀÀ--

21/3/07 12:15 PM  
Blogger Julie said...

I hate facebook... any money I will delete my profile by the end of the March?

(My nice girl photo is a close up of my face at an odd angle) - I was told to take the one of me when I was 4 with the gun down because people didn't know who I was.

Are people actually expected to be real on facebook? Isn't it just for running into people and being all :

OMG!! HI How are YOU??? It's BEEN SOOOOO LONG!! We MUST keep in TOUCH!!!

As far as I can tell that's what it's all about.

24/3/07 12:10 PM  

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