{"id":39564,"date":"2014-08-13T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39564"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:25:44","slug":"wanna-hear-a-joke-internet-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39564","title":{"rendered":"Wanna hear a joke?\u00a0 Internet narcissism."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-39565 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/narcissist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/narcissist.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/narcissist-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Over the last week or so, my Facebook friends number has dwindled a little bit.\u00a0 It\u2019s not necessarily because I\u2019ve pissed people off to where they don\u2019t want to be internet friends with me, it\u2019s because some people believe that Facebook has become such a toxic environment that they don\u2019t want to be a part of it anymore, or it\u2019s because some people think their lives have become so expansively complicated that too high a number of friends on Facebook is apparently detrimental to everything that happens away from the internet, that they feel the need to pare down the ranks to regain some degree of composure in life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">In other words, narcissism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">It may not seem like it, but I have nothing against the unnamed people that I am referring to.\u00a0 They can choose to make the decisions they want to make.\u00a0 What I do find laughable though, are their seeming requirements to announce such plays to the rest of the listening internet before they make them, which I can\u2019t help but feel is unnecessarily narcissistic, and in a passive-aggressive way, fishing for feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not entirely sure why people bother to act in these kinds of manners, if they\u2019re not making not-so subtle pleas for people to notice them.\u00a0 If you\u2019re so sick of Facebook, don\u2019t be theatric, just leave.\u00a0 If your Facebook wall is so overwhelmingly content-heavy thanks to having oh-no-so-many internet friends, then pare down without making a spectacle of yourself, or simply block seeing everyone you\u2019re really not that interested in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">When the day is over, people like me don\u2019t care, and move on, but by making an unnecessarily larger deal than it should be gives me fodder to write about how silly it is, as well as makes me think you\u2019re drama queens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The funny thing is that when Party #1 mentioned their interest in walking away from theFB, I opinionated that an overall loss of correspondence from a large number of people should be expected, due to the fact that Facebook has become so engrained in everyday life for a vast majority of the populous, to where not being on Facebook would be akin to not existing at all, to a degree.\u00a0 When they made their melodramatic warning that they were\u00a0<em>going to<\/em>\u00a0delete their account, the first responses were inquiries of how to keep in touch with them; which were things\u00a0<em>already explained<\/em>\u00a0in the prior post, meaning that even on the largest social network in the world, people still don\u2019t always pay attention to everything anyone has to say, no matter how nice everyone tries to be to each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Ultimately, narcissism is not the most appealing attribute in the world to have, but it\u2019s something that pretty much everyone has, whether they want to admit it or not.\u00a0 I\u2019d be remiss to even joke about excluding myself from this statement as well, because I\u2019m certain I\u2019ve made my share of remarks throughout the decades exalting my own self-importance to the rest of the internet.\u00a0 I just try and think more about the things I write and what possible consequences or conflicts may arise from making them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m perfect, but I\u2019m pretty sure I wouldn\u2019t announce to everyone that I\u2019m planning on dramatically ending my tenure as a Facebook user, or planning on making friend cuts.\u00a0 A little too narcissistic for my tastes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week or so, my Facebook friends number has dwindled a little bit.\u00a0 It\u2019s not necessarily because I\u2019ve pissed people off to where they don\u2019t want to be internet friends with me, it\u2019s because some people believe that Facebook has become such a toxic environment that they don\u2019t want to be a part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wanna hear a joke?\u00a0 Internet narcissism.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,83,15,156],"class_list":["post-39564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-og","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39566,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39564\/revisions\/39566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}