23, and I am writing my memoirs

Red_Marauder

Well, in a manner of speaking, most of us are.

Google launched their social networking site recently, 'GoogleBuzz'. It's their answer to facebook and bebo. What effect to you think these networking sites are going to have on how we are perceived long after our passing from this world?

I have an image, when I am ninety-eight and lying in algor mortis (murdered no doubt by a jealous lover), of my descendants prying scandalously through my moth-eaten status updates, antique pictures of my youth and frivolity.

They'd see me groping the breasts of a pretty girl here (that's not dear Grandmother), fondling the private parts of a dapper young gentleman there (hey... that's Uncle Jasper), and altogether getting a picture of my life in it's entirity that I'm not sure I'd really want to have as my bare-all legacy.

We all enjoy the scandal of our forbears - but largely it is the rumour of what they got up to that we enjoy. I don't think many of us would particularly relish photographic and alphabetical evidence of their scandals or improprieties.

So, what effect do you think social networking is going to have on future perception of you, if any? Do you think people might get the wrong ideas about you based upon your online activities?

Might even our descendents read our boards.ie posts and what might they think?

Are we not all effectively contributing to a public chronological record of our lives - at least our public lives - that is, writing our memoirs?

Jesus Wept

I don't think they'll give two shíts.

Borneo Fnctn

Writing your memoirs? You're 23 billy, you should be out gettin' beaver!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Another social networking site... just what we need...

As to what my facebook legacy will be...? My FB pic on my headstone, along with a scroll of paper where people can write their comments. And, of course, a like/dislike button. If I get likes, I go to Heaven. Dislikes, I go to hell.

I think the Muslims have similar judgement procedure in place.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I think I will have deleted my fb account in the next few years. If not sooner. Good for keeping in touch with some people every so often. Saves on phone bills

IrishManSaipan

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

As to what my facebook legacy will be...? My FB pic on my headstone, along with a scroll of paper where people can write their comments. And, of course, a like/dislike button. If I get likes, I go to Heaven. Dislikes, I go to hell..

Here lies Ikky Poo

He haddith 874 friends.

None showed up to his funeral.

784940 RIP Ikky Poo groups were set up in his honour.




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Princess Consuela Bananahammock

IrishManSaipan wrote: »

Here lies Ikky Poo

He haddith 874 friends.

None showed up to his funeral.

784940 RIP Ikky Poo groups were set up in his honour.




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And what's the betting the send ****ing farmville flowers?

Red_Marauder

Mariam Purring Clergyman wrote: »

I think I will have deleted my fb account in the next few years. If not sooner. Good for keeping in touch with some people every so often. Saves on phone bills

Yes but even when you delete your facebook account, its footprint exists somewhere in the intergalacticalweb - I've deleted mine before, six months later I re-joined, and all of the old facebook was there with its photos, status updates, links and so on.

I'm not sure if I like that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Red_Marauder wrote: »

Yes but even when you delete your facebook account, its footprint exists somewhere in the intergalacticalweb - I've deleted mine before, six months later I re-joined, and all of the old facebook was there with its photos, status updates, links and so on.

I'm not sure if I like that.

Woo hoo! Reincarnation!!!

recylingbin

I love these social networking sites. Nothing gives me greater wood than providing my details to a company who then sell them on to companies who try and sell me their **** products that I don't want.
I'm also a fan of the byproduct - scam artists using my details to steal my identity and ruin my credit rating.
I only wish that they would charge me for the privelege.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Red_Marauder wrote: »

Yes but even when you delete your facebook account, its footprint exists somewhere in the intergalacticalweb - I've deleted mine before, six months later I re-joined, and all of the old facebook was there with its photos, status updates, links and so on.

I'm not sure if I like that.

Oh well then I am happy I didn't use my real name when joining it Although, it's quite annoying to try and explain to people why I didn't want to use my real name.

Riamfada

Sure the internet will be come self aware well before we all get old and the great cyber wars will be lost because the machine knows everything about us. Id rather that than another year of facebook.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

This is the reason why none of us will ever be able to become politicians or even Supreme Court Justice

Damn chronological accounts of the skeletons in our closets

recylingbin

Alfredo Sparse Weeknight wrote: »

This is the reason why none of us will ever be able to become politicians or even Supreme Court Justice

Damn chronological accounts of the skeletons in our closets

Didn't harm the tit grabber in Kildare, in fairness.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

recylingbin wrote: »

Didn't harm the tit grabber in Kildare, in fairness.

Elaborate

recylingbin

Alfredo Sparse Weeknight wrote: »

Elaborate

some attention whore in kildare had pics up on her facebook in which she was grabbing her attention whore friend's tits.
She ran for the council. Hadn't a hope of getting in. link to her facebook account was sent around. Pics posted on every forum in the country, also in the national media.
The exposure garnered her enough votes to be able to grab tits in the council offices in Kildare.

Red_Marauder

recylingbin wrote: »

some attention whore in kildare had pics up on her facebook in which she was grabbing her attention whore friend's tits.

That's the thing - she might not be an attention whore at all. Not all of the information about you online is controlled by you, nor are photographs.

sceptre

Alfredo Sparse Weeknight wrote: »

Elaborate

Here you go.

I still say the picture of her eating half a cake was better.

Gillington

recylingbin wrote: »

I love these social networking sites. Nothing gives me greater wood than providing my details to a company who then sell them on to companies who try and sell me their **** products that I don't want.
I'm also a fan of the byproduct - scam artists using my details to steal my identity and ruin my credit rating.
I only wish that they would charge me for the privelege.

Just send your Mafia wars family around to them,that'll show 'em

biko

Just another way for Google to own you.

Borneo Fnctn

Borneo Fnctn wrote: »

Writing your memoirs? You're 23 billy, you should be out gettin' beaver!

Think ya missed the entire point of his post. These posts right here and whats on our facebook are our 'memoirs'.

Magnus

Magnus wrote: »

Just another way for Google to own you.

It's how I roll.

HxGH

I stopped using bebo..
So that's one down..

Facebook still has me unfortunately.

I will never join twitter...
It's just so sad...

Facebook is just twitter wit a few extra features tho.. It revolves around status updates..

HxGH

Deleted User wrote: »

Facebook is just twitter wit a few extra features tho.. It revolves around status updates..

I suppose Facebook has the funtions of Twitter but it's not used as much.

jared86

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Woo hoo! Reincarnation!!!

lol. thanks for that

AnonoBoy

Go on - try and find something about me online.

You get a cake if you do.

Biggins

23, and I am writing my memoirs

Why not. If that twat Miley Cyrus can write her's at 15 (for gawds sake! :rolleyes: LINK ) ...then why not.
I'd buy yours ten times quicker any day than hers!

El Siglo

I just google the name of your one in the boob-gate (Emma Kiernan), lmgtfy. I don't think any of us here will make as big a 'tit' out of ourselves as this one, although it did help her win in the local election and she is quite hot. Fair play, hooray for facebook!

Aidric

They hold this information! Wut? :eek:

stovelid

In fairness to social networks, they were the first to notice (and profit from) the fact that we all hold dear the abject fallacy that our own lives somehow possess an unique individuality and contain occurrences and insights that really, really are not replicated across millions of other lives every day of every year, and that everybody really, really needs to hear about it.

AnonoBoy

stovelid wrote: »

In fairness to social networks, they were the first to notice (and profit from) the fact that we all hold dear the abject fallacy that our own lives somehow possess an unique individuality and contain occurrences and insights that really, really are not replicated across millions of other lives every day of every year, and that everybody really, really needs to hear about it.

Yeah, when will people realise they're not special or interesting at all?

I know I'm not.

Biggins

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah, when will people realise they're not special or interesting at all?

I know I'm not.

Don't put yourself down.
...thats our job.

but seriously...
Good old "Peig" I thought was boring when trying to read it in Irish but when I came across an English translation, it was actually better than some books I've read.
So while someone's autobiography might not be action packed stuff, it can serve as a historical record as to how life was life at a certain time - and its not always wild behaviour.
Even the boring autobiography's can reflect a broader record of human life for generations to come.

Dudess

stovelid wrote: »

In fairness to social networks, they were the first to notice (and profit from) the fact that we all hold dear the abject fallacy that our own lives somehow possess an unique individuality and contain occurrences and insights that really, really are not replicated across millions of other lives every day of every year, and that everybody really, really needs to hear about it.

I thought it WAS pretty interesting that I was "enjoying a coffee"... :mad:

AnonoBoy

Dudess wrote: »

I thought it WAS pretty interesting that I was "enjoying a coffee"... :mad:

Perhaps if you had a potentially lethal allergy to caffeine it would be for others too.

Oh Jesus - she's having a coffee! That girl, she so crazy!

stovelid

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Yeah, when will people realise they're not special or interesting at all?

You're interesting in your own way.

We all are.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dudess wrote: »

I thought it WAS pretty interesting that I was "enjoying a coffee"... :mad:

It was! Mocca? Frappa? Cappachino...? Keep talking, girl!

AnonoBoy

stovelid wrote: »

You're interesting in your own way.

We all are.

gmonov1

some really over the top statements been made here, social networking sites owning our souls?? Superhans alert!!

The truth of it is, we control most of what is on our own facebook, bebo pages, if you post a picture of yourself grabbing someones tits, dont complain when someone you dont want seeing it, sees it. if a friend posts it, remove your tag, pretty simple stuff.

and as the op says, if when your 80 or 90 years old on your death bed and your grandkids are checking your facebook to try get inspiration for what to say in your eulogy, a few dodgy pictures will be the least of your worries