There is no form of self-torture worse than looking at your ex’s wall. You wouldn’t pour salt on your own physical wound, yet you just can’t stop yourself from checking out what other women have posted on his wall. It is a strange sort of obsession: if you are miserable and lonely, you don’t want him to be happy, either. So you’re half-hoping that there’s no action on his wall. However, you also have a sick fascination with the comments he does receive from other women. You can judge these …
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Facebook is, among other things, a sexist invention. It benefits guys and hurts girls. Guys have an easy way of talking to girls they see around or have in class. They can spend hours checking out hot girls who tag themselves looking great in albums called “This is Why I’m Hot.” If they’re lucky, they can look at girls kissing each other, dancing on tables and falling out of their tops at the bar. Yes, Facebook would have been invented by a man.
Girls use it for looking at people too …
In the beginning stages of a budding relationship, Facebook is a crucial flirtation tool. If you are careful and conscientious, you can use this social network to score some real face-to-face action.
Start by keeping your profile up-to-date and representing the version of you that you hope to bring to a relationship. If you’re only looking for a good time, feel free to keep up the pictures with you kissy-facing your girlfriends and tossing out peace signs with every guy in the bar (wearing their hats and sticking out your …
Breaking up is almost always awful. But if there’s one thing that’s worse than breaking up, it’s being forced to talk about it. In the dark ages, your parents and close friends were the only ones who felt comfortable pressing for details about an ugly split or crowing, “He wasn’t good enough for you anyway!” But in the age of social media and oversharing, your heartache is now everybody’s news.
Facebook’s “relationship status change” is among the most awkward of social media status alerts, and it’s not difficult to see why. …
With only six options to describe the complex connection (or lack of connection) you share with another person, what’s a Facebook member to do? Obviously, your relationship status is one of the first tidbits of information a person looking to befriend and perhaps court you peruses when shopping for a new love interest. Nonetheless, whether you take the relationship status on your profile seriously or not, each dating update carries its own implications and reactions, some of which are disastrous, while others actually work to your advantage.
Single is another way …
When Facebook gave us the “tag photo” option, it was a bit scary. People could post pictures of us on the internet and everyone could look at them. But then we realized how easily this could be used to our advantage. We could post pictures of ourselves on the internet and everyone we cared about would look at them! I don’t think I took a single picture in college without the passionate hope that it would be good enough to tag, or, even better, win the coveted spot as my …
If love is a battlefield, then Facebook has become the Internet equivalent of the Cold War. Case in point: after the lengthy collapse of one of my previous relationships, I was shocked to find my ex-girlfriend’s relationship status changed to “single” within mere hours of our parting. I quickly responded in kind by updating my relationship status and sharing flirtatious comments on the walls of new, potential love interests, secretly hoping these playful posts would reach my ex the next time she scrolled through her news feed.
Thanks to the immediate …
