i joined facebook for the events . yes i am constantly checking status updates , posting photos and instant messaging but really i just joined for the plethora of singles events posted . now that fb exists no one gets conventional e-mails about events so i just had to join. oy the peer pressure.
my most favorite part about seeing posted events is checking out the guest list. you just know that half of those people on the guest list are not attending because in a few days when the event posts photos you don't usually see half the people who say that they are attending. this can be good , this can be bad depending on who on the guest list you do or don't want to see at said event or even in photos.( yes there are some people i don't even want to encounter even in a photograph)
even if they make people pre-pay for an event one still doesn't really know who is truly on the guest list. as the saying goes... "just clicking attending on fb does not assure one's spot at the event. one has to register on the link" which is usually off facebook.
i do miss the good old days of just asking the event organizer who was attending the event before actually signing up. there were no guest list guarantees then either , but it didn't indulge any one's inner stalker either.
now when we attend singles events not only do people look vaguely familiar because we may have seen them in person we now may have seen them on facebook as well. when someone uses the pickup line "haven't i seen you somewhere?" they aren't completely lying. they probably have seen you somewhere before, but that somewhere was most likely virtual.
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