On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 6:54 AM, feste37 <fest...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: > > > > Hi Steve, funnily enough I was reading about this on the plane > yesterday. A wonderful book by Oliver Burkeman the author of Antidote, > his latest essay collection that someone on FFL recommended a few months > ago. He's very funny as he comments on all kinds of human foibles, etc. > At one point he says that research indicates that people tend to make their > lives sound different online than they really are. > > I think that's why Facebook is so damned annoying. In my little corner of > Facebook, it seems that everyone is always supporting noble causes, making > pithy comments about life (always positive of course), generating endless > New Age blather, feeling wonderful, grateful, etc., etc. It's enough to > make a person puke. > > Partially it's just a limitation of the medium. And I'm guessing that > the ability to transcend this limitation differs from individual to > individual depending on personality, upbringing, etc.
And this doesn't remind you of someone here on FFL? Someone who's your friend - like Share? LOL..what an idiot
