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This sort of thing was supposed to be confined to MySpace, wannit?
PONTIAC, Mich. — A Facebook feud between two women who claimed to love the same prison inmate led to a high-speed chase and a crash that critically injured one of the rivals, killed her friend and left the second rival facing murder charges.As much we might complain about the colonizing of the real world by the virtual, I guess it kinda cuts both ways. Although you'd think that social networks online would be somewhat sanitized of the intense emotions we can't seem to control in our real life relations, in fact they often seem that much more intense for being isolated in the void of cyberspace.
Torrie Emery was arraigned Friday in Pontiac's 50th District Court on multiple felonies, as friends of the dead woman were holding a car wash to pay for her funeral.
Which makes you wonder if social networking online is really social at all. It begins to take on the extreme character of pathological narcissism, psychosis, and delusion that has been the drift of modern culture. Wouldn't it be ironic if malignant emotion rather than cold cognition became the true hallmark of the Information Age?
Alas, that appears to be where we're headed, if we don't crash on the way.
The web and all its outlets are communication tools, just like old-fashioned written letters, telephone calls, etc. You can abuse them or use them creatively and healthily. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.
People who are determined to be destructive, and self-destructive in particular, will find a way to do it no matter what the medium. I use my blog and my Facebook page to communicate with friends and family, learn, make friends and, as things have worked out, meet bloggers in person some of whom have become dear and important friends.
Malignant emotion has been one of the major motivations throughout human history, long before there was My Space or whatever.
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Side note along these lines: Have you been to 7-11 lately? If you do, see if you can spot the infiltration of Facebook there. Specifically, an app that makes people feel like they're feeding a family with healthy vegetables and dairy products. Oh, and look for the pastries at the register. Some are also from Facebook land. I wonder if you'll spot them... ;)
-Thom
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Malthusian Darwinism at its best. But then I laugh with giddy glee over the white trash dysfunctionalism of True Blood (no offense toward Tara or Lafayette). Makes my blood run tingly warm with feverish anticipation of their further adventures.
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