Mind your, everyone's, own business

For those of us on social networking sites like facebook, we all have that one annoying "friend" that comes up on our news feed all the time. Every time I check my news feed, I'd see this girl come up with her statuses. Not only were they annoying, but they were constantly updated. I always felt like, dammit people are taking facebook way too seriously, updating their every move and etc.

What used to bother me most about this girl is the fact that her statuses were always depressing. She always seemed to be complaining about something or feeling some kind of negative way. I always wanted to post something on her wall trying to give her a hint that she was becoming annoying, maybe something like "Be happy" or "Shut up and live a little." But I never did because we aren't close enough to feel the right to tell her something. I used to be bothered when she would write every single thing on facebook because I felt like that's what people complain about the most. Everyone hates when people are in their business, but if you feel the need to tell the whole world your problems, your business has become their business!

This rerminds me of the Rosenburg reading on Justin Hall. In a way, I don't judge as much when I see people post ridiculous crap online. That is because what is weird to me might not be weird to others, someone out there will find it entertaining. In the reading, it was stated that Justin Hall was more complex than he appeared to be, even though he posted his whole life on the web. I think that sentence kind of made me reflect on the way I judge people online. Even though someone may have their life story on a blog, that doesn't mean there isn't more to the individual than what we see. Just like his upbringing and father's death kind of influenced his need to blog, I think that each person has different motivations and reasons to express themselves. It is true when it was stated "I'm doing this because I can do it. Soon, everyone will be doing it." Justin's Hall use of blogging and self expression has been judged in different ways from absolutely crazy to madly genius. I think that in the end, who would have known that what he did became a norm a decade later (not all of it, but to a certain extent).