Well, I've been gone from around here for a while, but I've still been plenty active on Facebook (and find this as an irresistible opportunity to ask you to *like* umf on Facebook) and noticed a little trend on Facebook, "exposing" pages. These exist for the purpose of...well, really it's just making fun of people...and while that's not the worst thing in the world for me, it's the things some folk are saying that are getting my brow all furrowed. It started out with "Exposing Deadbeat Parents" (or maybe not, do I look like a Facebook historian to you?) where people could go to air out their grievances about the irresponsible parents in their lives. I thought that was pretty funny...even had a little celebrity moment when a picture I took of a woman texting on the train with her month-old and completely unrestrained baby balanced precariously on her lap somehow ended up on the page to a chorus of outraged and hilarious comments.
Of course, it didn't stop there. Next, there was "Exposing Sluts of *insert your city here*" (who didn't have to be exposed...apparently it's something to be proud of in twentyleven) then "Exposing Frauds", "Exposing Bitter Baby Mommas", and "Exposing Duck Bitches who Think they Bad" appeared soon thereafter...and that's when a dangerous little thing called "subjectivity" creeped into the equation. As you can imagine, quite a few people were quite upset about having their pictures added to the annals of Facebook ridicule...especially those who did not deserve to be listed. (You can't tell me that at least half of the people who ended up on the pages I just mentioned were contributed by jilted exes/rejected suitors/other varieties of folk with high sodium content.) Feelings got hurt, arguments got started...generally things got way more serious than they should ever really get online.
However, the phenomenon hasn't even reached the full extent of its destructive potential. Nope, with new, even more controversial pages like "Exposing Snitches", "Exposing Down Low Brothas" (that's "gay", for those who don't speak Jet magazine) and "Exposing STD carriers", incredibly lives are now are at stake based on Facebook. (Well, I guess it wouldn't be the first time, but that's still dumber than failing summer school.) People's pictures and personas being attached to concepts like that is no laughing matter...I don't have to tell you that having the wrong people hear that you like to carry on long, informative discussions with the cops in your spare time can be hazardous to your health, true or not. Even having the wrong people get wind of your alleged case of herpes can cripple your love life. (I'm not saying somebody is automatically discounted for appearing on the STD page...but will I think twice? Three times? 4? Will I think for long enough for her to go get tested and come directly back with the results? You're damn right I will. Show me the girlfax.)
I'm just saying, people...this shit is getting way out of hand. Bad things will happen. People will be hurt. Lives and reputations can, will, and likely already have been ruined beyond repair, and that's why this needs to end sooner rather than later. It was good for a couple laughs for a few days, but it's just about run it's course. (Besides, people are running out of ideas now..."Exposing Chubby Chasers", "Exposing Double Dippers"...okay, I made that last one up, but still. I even had an idea for an "Exposing Store Bought Bitches" page where people could go and denounce, with pics, users of stuffed bras, butt-enhancing panties and other kinds of wearable lies for women...but I'll sacrifice it for the cause.) Besides...it's still Facebook...people don't need to be exposed by others...they do it themselves, one status at a time. Let's stop the madness, people.
(Of course, nobody's going to listen to liloleme...but that means I get more excuses to post...lol...)
*flips mic cavalierly into crowd, walks off*
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Dang, I didn't realize this sort of thing was going on. I agree that it sucks and has to stop before someone goes ballistic and ends up making national news.
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