cre8Buzz Blog

When you spend 12 hours praying to the porcelain God, you have some time to think about a few things.  Like putting your kindergartener through a sanitizing rinse upon coming home each day.  Or social networking sites. You may have seen the NY Times Op-Ed written by a 20-something about her concern that the “adults” would ruin Facebook (guess she was too P.C. to call everyone over 30 “old”, never mind she herself is an adult):

“All the rhetoric about human connectivity misses the real reason this popular online study buddy has so distracted college students for the past four years.  Facebook did not become popular because it was a functional tool — after all, most college students live in close quarters with the majority of their Facebook friends and have no need for social networking. Instead, we log into the Web site because it’s entertaining to watch a constantly evolving narrative starring the other people in the library.

I’ve always thought of Facebook as online community theater…  It’s all comedy: making one another laugh matters more than providing useful updates about ourselves, which is why entirely phony profiles were all the rage before the grown-ups signed in.

For young people, Facebook is yet another form of escapism; we can turn our lives into stage dramas and relationships into comedy routines. Make believe is not part of the postgraduate Facebook user’s agenda. As more and more older users try to turn Facebook into a legitimate social reference guide, younger people may follow suit and stop treating it as a circus ring. But let’s hope not.”

I don’t think any of us here at Cre8buzz could possibly come up with a more concise depiction of what is wrong with the big social networking sites.  It’s all kids (childish behavior, regardless of age) playing masquerade.  Cre8buzz is just the oppposite: it’s about thinking people meeting up with others who are interested in the same stuff.  It is about sincerity, conviction and reputation, even if the subject is celebrity flatulence.   It’s the difference between McDonalds and In-n-Out Burger.  Or Naugahyde and leather.  Between polyester and cotton, or Senators Larry Craig and John McCain.

So here’s hoping that the children playing dress-up stay right at home in Facebook and MySpace.   We prefer to hang with the adults at Cre8buzz.