Comments on: Fake fun in the land of false friends

By: bookworm

bookworm — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:08:59 +0000

As a Glamour article rightly put it in this month’s issue, obsessive posting on these networking sites reflects a syndrome of ‘oversharing’; and it’s not just common people who do so, the celebs seem to be having a field day too!

By: Milkmaid

Milkmaid — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:19:43 +0000

In reply to Angele. Farmville, Farmville! Ever tried to call a 40-something (presumably dignified) person, only to be told that he is busy, then logging onto Facebook to find out that that same person WAS busy ... milking a cow on Farmville? [Daphne - Marelli, how depressing. Dan pajjiz tal-imgienen.]

By: Angele

Angele — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:58:48 +0000

Around 95% of my acquaintances have a Facebook page. Every time I meet them they ask me when I’m going to open one myself. I’m in my 20s and the idea of coming home in time to tend my Farmville or aquarium or cafe seems ridiculous. I once had hi5 but that was to keep in touch with some friends in Italy. Once they came back to Malta, bye-bye hi5.

The people who have a life are those who spend their free time with their family and friends in person, not by means of a virtual entity.

So I tell all these people who are obsessed with Facebook and all that it entails: please get a real life.

By: Anthony Farrugia

Anthony Farrugia — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:16:38 +0000

I belong to that age group who are making asses of themselves on Facebook. I have been using internet for the past 14 years (must have been one of Amazon’s first customers from Malta) but always gave a wide berth to chatting, chatrooms and social networks (Facebook, Twitter, HI5 etc).

You must be really desperate to try and make friends this way.

In Malta a lot of people fail to note that there is a difference between an acquaintance and a friend; acquaintances can be plenty but real, true friends are few and far between.

One other thing: what is this fixation, mania (call it what you will) in attending funerals? A colleague of mine had made it a habit of phoning in at the office or coming in for five minutes and then leaving to attend a funeral, showing up at about 11am or better if it is in the afternoon taking off at 2pm.

He would always say it was a relative or a great friend whom he might only have met once at a wedding 15 years ago. It would have been pathetic had it not been so disruptive and the powers-that-be came down like a ton of bricks when they got on to his game and made him take a half day off from his vacation leave.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:09:57 +0000

So true.

Grown-ups are constantly having discussions on television shows about internet privacy and how we are not aware of the consequences of publishing things online when clearly they are in no position to lecture us.

Also, a couple of months back my friends and I came across a guy in a local pub who was asking a friend to make him a Facebook page ‘biex jaghbbi’, and he had high hopes about it. Now that is sad.

There’s also a bad side to young people not separating their life on the internet from their real one- like someone starting a conversation about what you did on Facebook last night. Pathetic.

By: Ciccio2010

Ciccio2010 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:02:18 +0000

I liked this article. Not that it is (or can be) exhaustive on the subject, but it digs into this pretty recent social phenomenon, which, as usual in the history of humanity, is used and abused.
Judging from the recent tales of Ms. Piggy and Kermit, Facebook can be a convenient place to lose face…

By: Il mingell

Il mingell — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:42:16 +0000

Ghax ghandna l-Lorry maghna, ahna maqughdin…..

[Daphne – Please, don’t give me nightmares.]