We knew each other for years and worked together. Then one day I went to your profile to ask how you’re doing and what do I see? The add-as-friend button by you! Then I looked at your friends list and see that it doesn’t look any shorter and you still had all of our mutual friends! What the fuck, man! I thought maybe it was a glitch since Facebook has done some fucked up things. So I sent you a friend request. It got denied, so nope no glitch. I don’t know why you singled me out. I wish someone would fill me in. —Facebook Shafted
This article appears in Dec 13-19, 2012.
Why do you even care!?! People spend way too much time giving a shit what is going on in Facebook. Now let’s hear from someone with a real and valid bitch. Next!!
That would be perplexing. There should be a field for required explanation to complete the process of friend deletion. OP would then know the story and there would be fewer facebook bitches. Win win.
Go make a real life friend. Hell I’ll be your friend, I’m running low lately. I’m socially awkward so we’d probably get along great 😉
Oh for fuck sakes. Bitching about being de-friended on facebook? Give your head a shake, OB.
Forget that “friend” and screw facebook. There are more important things to worry about OB!
It’s fucking Fartbook – who gives a steaming shit?
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HE DELETED YOU ON FACEBOOK?! That asshole. Leave his name and address so the internet police can go see him and get to the bottom of this.
WHAT IS A FRIEND?
“I don’t know why you singled me out. I wish someone would fill me in.” Facebook Shafted
“friend, n., one joined to another in intimacy and mutual benevolence independently of sexual or family love.” (The Concise Oxford Dictionary)
Facebook Shafted is clearly upset. He feels that he has been shafted and wants an explanation. Why, he wants to know, has he been shafted? Two possible explanations arise: (1) the Nature Facebook Communication and (2) the Philosophical Reason for (1).
(1) The Nature Facebook Communication: Clearly, a Facebook friend fails to satisfy the conditions of friendship, i.e., being joined to another in intimacy and mutual benevolence. Why is this so? It is so because of the superficial nature of the medium itself. By definition there can be no intimacy and mutual benevolence independently of physical, emotional and intellectual contact. But why is this so? It is so because Facebook lacks precisely that personal dimension which extends beyond the cybernetic nature of communication and which makes it personally meaningful. For example, to convey that one is joking one must add “lol” or a smiley face. In other words, the cybernetic nature of communication as enshrined in Facebook lacks that connotative dimension, a dimension that is required for any meaningful human communication. Facebook, by its nature, is for the most part limited to the exchange of factual information or at best unsupported opinion which I have elsewhere called “brain farts”. But why is this so?
(2) The Philosophical Reason for (1): Modern society generally and Facebook communication in particular are products of cybernetic technology and cybernetic technology in the context of meaningful human communication is largely restricted to the superficial, the transitory and the ephemeral. By its nature that is its mileu. Meaningful intimacy and benevolence are beyond its remit. Put differently, a Facebook “friend” is only that, a “friend.” He is not real but only virtual. The question then is whether our cybernetic technology, a mechanism of alienation rather than of intimacy and benevolence, will render us all virtual to ourselves. Will we all become pale, superficial, transitory and ephemeral shadows of our real selves addictively attached to Facebook and its social media variants like Bitch? Will our lives become digitalized and flattened? I leave this question for others to pursue.
Facebook Shafted has been filled in. Have a good day.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
If you really care, why don’t you try this magical and archaic thing called talking in person.
I gave up FB a few years ago. Colossal waste of time. Don’t get to vested into friends and non-friends there. Concentrate on the ones who actually play a part in your life.
Maybe it’s because you send those stupid fucking cat photos and other stupid pictures.
It was a real life friend, read the bitch. Maybe most of the commentors are too old to realize social media is the future and is important in a modern social life. If you were raised in the modern world you would realize this is actually a legitimate bitch in todays world. We’re not going to go back in time and place no relevance on social media. If “old people” think there’s nothing important to Facebook and not to worry about any problems that arise on it, then they should watch the news to see how important the role of social networking actually is and how problems that arise on it can negatively impact your life away from the computer. Stop fighting Facebook, its not going away, and judging by the amount of users it has, it is an important part of life now, like it or not, accept it.
Get deleted, send another friend request, lol… Gotta learn to let people go, OB. Yeah, it’s a bit of a blow to the ego when they delete you and not your other mutual friends, but maybe they’ve kept in contact with them over the months.
I think the problem is that people are living too much in the online world so something like this happens and they take it personally.
Maybe they never genuinely liked you and just accepted your original friend request (assuming you requested) to avoid any awkwardness in real life.
Only way to tell is to send them another friend request and see what happens 😉 jk, don’t do that. Move on. I am sure there are a lot of people out there that want to be your facebook “friend” and there’s no sense wasting energy on someone like that.
Nukka, are you the OB? If so, you didn’t give any real indication that his person was a friend. Just your facebook “friend”. Knowing someone for years and having worked together does not automatically make someone your friend, and this person clearly was not your friend, at least not anymore 😛
“If you were raised in the modern world you would realize this is actually a legitimate bitch in todays world.”
Yeah, totally legitimate if you’re in junior high.
“should watch the news to see how important the role of social networking actually is”
Very valid point. I just read on the CNN website how the economy is going to face another recession because Brian from Indiana cleaned up his friends list and deleted 14 people that he hasn’t talked to in months.
Do you post a lot of christian crap? That would do it.
” If you were raised in the modern world you would realize this is actually a legitimate bitch in todays world.”
Getting mad enough to post on a shit website about how someone digitally removed you from a friends list on an equally shitty website is kind of pathetic. Did he call the OB up and say “I don’t want to be friends”…no he didn’t. Stop being a bitch and man the fuck up. Facebook was designed to exploit the average persons need for unwarranted attention and self promotion.
The bitches about cyclists and bad drivers are more legitimate than this pathetic bitch.
just me or does everyone else hear a little sissy voice in their head when montreal man writes?he needs a good vindaloo.
#1Wogdog
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: wogdog (12/20, 9:06AM)
Good morning Woggie. I’m ready for that vindaloo. Will you be serving?
More than that, I* think I might be acquiring physical feelings for you.
* My virtual self, i.e. “Montrealman”. Does it make sense to speak of “virtual physical relations” or is that a contradiction in terms? Write back soon with your “virtual” thoughts.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
now THISISAREALMAN!!!i will gas up sot o speak and be over for 7 pm.
#1Wogdog
I guess I hit sore spot? Bitch and moan about Facebook all you want, its not going away! Maybe you should all spend your energy on how to improve the digital world. Ignoring it and saying its useless isn’t going to make the problem go away. Look at how many past technologies weren’t accepted immediately in their time, but a decade later and the world can’t live without them. Old people don’t like change, they ignore it, they make fun of it, then they die. Then the world moves on, there is no stopping this! If Facebook was irrelevant then why so many teen suicides from online bullying?
Maybe you’re a dick. … usually you’re the last one to know.
THE NATURE OF VIRTUALITY
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:wogdog (12/20, 9:49AM)
“* My virtual self, i.e., ‘Montrealman.’ Does it make sense to speak of ‘virtual physical relations’ or is that a contradiction in terms? Write back soon with your ‘virtual’ thoughts.” (Montrealman (12/20, 9:30AM) in response to wogdog (12/20, 9:06AM)
Right then Woggie, we’ll see you at 7 PM. But here’s a topic of conversation we might have while dining on your vindaloo: What is the nature of virtuality?
What happens when we put the word “virtuality” in quotation marks as I have just done? Virtuality, without the quotation marks, indicates the absence of actual physical reality. It is intended as merely a simulacrum of reality, reality in a metaphorical sense and not the real thing. When I write about our virtual physical relations or your virtual thoughts, both without quotation marks, I intend both only as a simulacrum of our physical relations, as a metaphor for your thoughts.
However, when I use quotation marks they appear to have a similar function. When I write about our “virtual physical relations” or your “virtual thoughts” I intend both only as a simulacrum of our physical relations, only as a metaphor for your thoughts.
Now – and here is my point – when I use BOTH quotation marks AND the word virtual, what happens? Does it place our physical relations and your thoughts at a still further remove from actual reality or, on the contrary, bring those relations and thoughts back into the realm of actual reality?
I’m sure you can see the dilemma. When I use both quotation marks and the word virtual, in what realm of reality are we, the actual or the virtual? I see it as a problem in ontology.
See you at 7PM then, Woggie. I’m looking forward to the vindaloo and, of course, our exploration of the nature of virtuality.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
montraelman baby you turn me on with the sissy voice you use in my h ead when i read your word s.is it coincidince vindaloo is number69 on the menu?
see you at 7 baby.
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:wogdog (12/20, 5:42PM)
Good morning Woggie.
I was glad to hear that I turn you on. But then I wondered, does that mean that I just “turn you on,” that is, in a virtual and not in an actual, real-world sense? Does it mean that I just metaphorically turn you on? If I added quotation marks so as to read that I “virtually” turn you on would that mean, on the basis of two negatives equal a positive, that I then turn you on in a real-world, actual sense?
Or else as I indicated in my initial reply to you, since we are both in the cybernetic world, a world possessing only virtual reality, does it make any sense at all to speak of my turning you on in an actual real-world sense? I think the question turns on some coherent comparison of the reality of the cybernetic world on the one hand and the actual real-world on the other. You might like to pursue this question at your leisure.
So vindaloo is #69 on the menu. That’s a large actual, real-world menu or perhaps you are just using the number #69 in its virtual sense as in “#69”. Maybe the vindaloo is only virtual as well. Write back soon with your reflections.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
#69 as in you and #1Wogdog astride each other s faces with our dang er zones.other wise im afraid you lost me MONTRAELMAN baby.
heybab y when you say a pleasure as always do you meam you always want to pleasure your Woggie? what about your Wookie?
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hahahah MM that was quite entertaining. But, unfortuately it wasn’t the #1 Wogdog who wrote that. As you probably know. But hey, I get a kick out of the imposters. They are basically talking to themselves at this point; no doubt they will soon be arguing with themselves since I have been advised to keep a bit of a low profile until things are complete. But I do enjoy your fantasy MM. Or should I say, honey-in-waiting? 😉
The sweet irony of the BLOWME/WogDog personas accusing someone of “talking to themselves” is both delicious and ironic. It’s delironic. Telling oneself that oneself should keep a ‘low profile’ is entertaining,to say the least.
Also funny:BLOWME/WogDog said he was going away for a long time but ‘found’ a reason to cone back today,and having been found out as a fake hasn’t mentioned the mythical ‘little girl’ again.
And two WOGsluts hitting on the intellectual Montrealman is no doubt a boon to his ego. And troublesome to the ego of BLOWME.Since one of the Wogdogs is BLOWME,the trouble must be halved.
by the shining beard of dennis cato i swear this to be true.
at the pleasure of the man from montreal i remain,
the fabulous froodle
Again, Merry Christmas Stevie. You’re quite the imposter aren’t you honey. But try as you might, you aren’t in line for the honeys-in=waiting. YET. But hey don’t give up hope. The #1 Woggers is VERY forgiving. Even to you.
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: wogdog (12/21, 9:40AM)
“When you say a pleasure as always do you meam (sic) you always want to pleasure your Woggie? What about your Wookie?”
Good afternoon Woggie.
Well, that’s an easy one. When I pleasure my Woggie I am, by definition, pleasuring my Wookie.
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“But I do enjoy your fantasy MM. Or should I say honey-in-waiting?”
Yes Woggie, by all means, do call me your “honey-in-waiting”.
While I was initially taken aback by your reference to my “fantasy” – I had thought of my comparison of virtual or cybernetic reality with actual real-life reality as more of a perceptive thought experiment but, after checking my Concise Oxford Dictionary (“fantasy, n. image-making faculty, esp. when extravagant or visionary”), I have to agree with your insight. I do, however, think my fantasy is more visionary than extravagant
In addition to my fantasy being a comparison of virtual as opposed to actual reality it also, by extension, touches upon the nature of personal identity itself. For example, the longer I post on Bitch the more I become my cybernetic persona – “Montrealman” – and proportionately the less I embody my real-life identity. In time, perhaps the former will completely absorb the latter. I will then have truly become a creature of the virtual world, one in which the only meaningful reality is the cybernetic one. The same thing, of course, will have happened to everyone else. We will all live in a virtual, cybernetic world. The implications of this new world, of course, have yet to be worked out. Perhaps you can share your thoughts.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
MM: Believe me my friend the blending of cyberpersonality and real life personality can and will happen. My honey in waiting….. please… don’t tell Blow though ok? It will be our little secret 😉
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