Author Topic: social networking is a horrible fascinating thing (Read 1399 times)

Eric P · « **on:** March 07, 2008, 09:45:50 AM »

so far thanks to myspace and facebook i have been found by

1) the girl i lost my virginity to (who sent me two really kind of sad messages saying that i broke her heart then deleted her profile)

2) my best friend in highschool (who is now in japan making dance music utilizing traditional japanese instruments over 808 beats)

3) my best friend from military school who i haven't talked to since 1993 (when he left military school then he tried to turn me onto jesus)

as an antisocial misanthrope whose life is built on regrets, the dregs of my past are constant horrifying reminders of my past failures in life and my current inability to live up to any sort of potential others see within me.

but i guess my life is the same as all lives. theories which sound great in the laboratory of our minds fail in real world conditions.

Rman · « **Reply #1 on:** March 07, 2008, 10:11:32 AM »

That was one of the draws of these networks. However, after learning that we are all too busy to rekindle old friendships I gave up on all that reunion garbage.

Ichirou · « **Reply #2 on:** March 07, 2008, 10:17:15 AM »

Do you have that chick's e-mail? She sounds like she's on the rebound (i.e., easy).

Eric P · « **Reply #3 on:** March 07, 2008, 10:28:50 AM »

Quote from: ParticleReality on March 07, 2008, 10:16:04 AM

Quote from: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 09:45:50 AM
1) the girl i lost my virginity to (who sent me two really kind of sad messages saying that i broke her heart then deleted her profile)

How did you respond?

i didn't. i hadn't spoken to her or thought about her for 15 years or so, so her to find me and write me these kind of mournful, sad notes was just really too much. she had become married and had two kids and had managed to find this life for herself, where as I... I don't know. I don't feel like i really have anything. the past several years of my life has been this paring down to where i find i have nothing but books, clothes that no longer fit, a mattress, and a computer.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #4 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:38:33 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 10:28:50 AM

i didn't. i hadn't spoken to her or thought about her for 15 years or so, so her to find me and write me these kind of mournful, sad notes was just really too much. she had become married and had two kids and had managed to find this life for herself, where as I... I don't know. I don't feel like i really have anything. the past several years of my life has been this paring down to where i find i have nothing but books, clothes that no longer fit, a mattress, and a computer.

you forgot "regrets"

yeah, it's weird to run into exes who are all married and enkidded and stuff

Powerslave · « **Reply #5 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:43:57 PM »

I don't know any people so I won't benefit from social networking.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #6 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:51:02 PM »

im not big on having more than a handful of friends

Himu · « **Reply #7 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:53:37 PM »

I've encountered people I haven't talked to or seen in years from myspace. It's weird. Really weird seeing some of them married or pregnant or in fucking Iraq serving in the marines.

Eric P · « **Reply #8 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:54:00 PM »

i've managed to par my life down to a handful of friends

it's all the old busted models which find me that creeps me out

like what if your first car suddenly showed up in your garage again?

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #9 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:54:55 PM »

From a Buick 8 is a metaphor for lost love and lycra stretch pants

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #10 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:55:46 PM »

Yeah ive moved so much as i've grown up that my lost friends are scattered across america never to be seen again. Whew.

Eric P · « **Reply #11 on:** March 07, 2008, 12:55:55 PM »

Quote from: Synthesizer Patel on March 07, 2008, 12:54:55 PM

From a Buick 8 is a metaphor for lost love and lycra stretch pants

weird that american apparel has a stephen king book written about it

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #12 on:** March 07, 2008, 01:00:46 PM »

the few hs friends i talk to are a depressing lot who eventually moved BACK to our shitty hometown, giving up their shitty best buy jobs for an even shittier wal-mart job or to become a smalltown cop. ew.

TVC15 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 07, 2008, 01:57:57 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 09:45:50 AM

as an antisocial misanthrope whose life is built on regrets, the dregs of my past are constant horrifying reminders of my past failures in life and my current inability to live up to any sort of potential others see within me.

but i guess my life is the same as all lives. theories which sound great in the laboratory of our minds fail in real world conditions.

I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.
Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.

:'( :'( :'(

Eric P · « **Reply #14 on:** March 07, 2008, 02:15:32 PM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on March 07, 2008, 01:57:57 PM

Quote from: Eric P on March 07, 2008, 09:45:50 AM
as an antisocial misanthrope whose life is built on regrets, the dregs of my past are constant horrifying reminders of my past failures in life and my current inability to live up to any sort of potential others see within me.

but i guess my life is the same as all lives. theories which sound great in the laboratory of our minds fail in real world conditions.

I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.
Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.

:'( :'( :'(

i know, right? time to dress in all black, smoke cloves and cry about the poor pandas

TVC15 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2008, 03:15:36 PM »

I would totally bone Nico, too.

Barry Egan · « **Reply #16 on:** March 07, 2008, 05:43:55 PM »

That Nico song greets me from the future with an all-knowing menace.

tiesto · « **Reply #17 on:** March 07, 2008, 08:05:28 PM »

I haven't heard much from old HS friends, since I am still really close with the few friends I had in HS... but the other day I got a friend request from some girl I used to go to HS with, who now looks pretty cute.

Eric P · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2008, 12:31:31 AM »

Quote from: dcharlie on March 07, 2008, 08:10:23 PM

So weird - after 12 years of thinking someone was dead, to finding out they aren't and they live down in Australia. Mind fuck total.

well, there are some who would argue there is not much difference

xnikki118x · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2008, 03:38:07 AM »

Hm, I need to track down the guy I lost my virginity to.

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Just kidding.

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I like the networking sites. I pretty much only friend people I know, and I like kind of keeping up on them. One of my high school friends just got engaged, and I wouldn't have known if it hadn't been for that creepy Facebook news feed thing haha. But I was so happy for her.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2008, 11:31:13 AM »

It's kind of weird- since I left Atlanta last July it's odd to keep up with my old "friends" on the intertubes. It takes very little commitment, tho, so it's probably the only way any of them are liable to hear from me ever again. I've decided that the life of solitude is the way to go, for the most part.

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Author Topic: social networking is a horrible fascinating thing (Read 1399 times)