Friday, February 01, 2008

Caught Up By Facebook Drama

Last night at work I was talking to my co-worker about school and my classes. I don't really know how we got on the subject, but Facebook creeped its way into the conversation. She began telling me about the new drama she's been experiencing at school, and of course it has to do with Facebook. She recently noticed that her boyfriend's status said that he was "single" when it should have said in a "relationship". After finding out the saddening news, she changed her status to single just to see what kind of response she would get... and boy did she get a response. As soon as she changed her status everyone was alerted with the broken heart message and the time she made the decision.

The next day at school everyone came up to her and said, "your no longer in a relationship, what happened?". The news traveled from one high school to another, her boyfriend who goes to a different high school, eventually found out the news through some friends. She received all kind of responses, some good and some bad. The guys were lining up just to see if they had a chance, of course her boyfriend was not happy.

It amazes me at the amount of time people spend on Facebook and how they are so concerned with the lives of others. Is it necessary to put all of your personal information on Facebook? Why do people need to know your every move? I think some things should just be left private.

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