Super Update Me

Are You Getting Your Fill at the Social Networking Buffet?

How organized do you have to be to use all these social networking tools?

Twitter, Facebook and Myspace status updates seem like a hassle to me. Especially if you let yourself and your narcissistic web of friends ossify into a dysfunctional reaction chain whereby everyone in your life needs to know what you’re doing, where you’re going, who you’re with. 

No one cares if you’re on your way to Walmart to buy socks. If you can Twitter your way out of prison, well great. The same concept behind Morgan Spurlock’s Supersize Me! could be put to work to examine what is at stake in these so-called social networking tools.

After 30 days of attempting to catalog your every move from the daily ‘im wakin up’ to the even-more-mundane ‘goin p’ I think that a more apt name would surface: Social Corralling tool. 

Of course, few of us do this. Nobody eats McDonalds three times a day, every day. But some insist on letting THE INTERNETZ know:

a) they're out

b) ‘bikin 2 get a Starbuck’ 

c) and ‘call me on my cell’ ← USELESS  

RE: C)

"oh yeah, Ed McMahon and the Prize Patrol were going to swing by your apartment, but you had text-posted to Twitter saying you were 'waitin in line @ Sonograms R Us' or "Well their Facebook status for the night of the murder is a sound alibi: there they were at the book store reading up on how to make their wardrobe more Steam Punk."

All I am saying is that if I had the funds, I would be making a documentary where I showcase myself posting status updates every time I do anything, with the exception of homeostasis...but if that's all I was doing for an extended period of time (like for more than 45 minutes) my post would say: 'still breathin, y'all.'