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[Victoria Waterfield]

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=01172010

This was a great start to my Sunday.

[CortJstr]

I could barely read this. It was just so awkward. It hurt me deep inside.

[jay-ell]

I dunno, I've seen real-life stuff worse than this. Seems like he could have pushed the envelope a little more.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Anyone who criticizes this is wrong. This is spot-on.

[CortJstr]

Anyone who criticizes this is wrong. This is spot-on.

Agreed. Hence why it was so painful to read.

[jaydub]

I thought the YouTube commentary was a bit more cerebral than what I usually see.

[littlefallsmets]

I'm on facebook far more often than on twitter or youtube?

But holy crap, he nailed facebook.

A lot of facebook is harmless fun but so much of it is a mechanism for false compliments and/or trying to keep a thin line on fuck*ng people you didn't get to fuck in high school or, to a lesser extent, college.

Oh man.

[Toaster]

This morning I achieved a perfect zen state on fuck*ng people I wanted to fuck in high school.

[wombat]

What he gets is that Facebook is the place on the internet where there are the kind of people who we used to be able to avoid by going on the internet.

Also, that it is the place for people who are clueless about basic principles of online interaction like 'read what you are commenting on.'

I have to say though that this is not really a subject I particularly desire to read comics about.

[robot_god]

What wombat said.  Good strip, but where's the Achewood, huh?

[oball]

What he gets is that Facebook is the place on the internet where there are the kind of people who we used to be able to avoid by going on the internet.

I'm not sure why people always say this.  There's an "Ignore" button for friend requests, or are people just that deathly afraid of offending people that they accept every friend request that comes their way?  If someone I had no time for in high school tries to friend me I just click "ignore" and go on my way.  It's not like they get a notification saying "Owen ____ has ignored your friend request!" 

And if you don't have all your privacy settings on maximum that's just asking for trouble.

[Toaster]

I cannot relate to anything you guys are saying. I loved high school, no one was a jerk to me, and I did not feel at all alienated. And I'm a huge nerd with OCD and bad parents, so I should have been a prime candidate for loner punching bag status. I wonder what went right.

[oball]

I loved high school, no one was a jerk to me, and I did not feel at all alienated.

Get off the internet.  Clearly you are supposed to be playing professional football somewhere.

[Toaster]

Get off the internet.  Clearly you are supposed to be playing professional football somewhere.

I can actually throw a perfect spiral. I'm not kidding.

[wombat]

I'm not sure why people always say this.  There's an "Ignore" button for friend requests, or are people just that deathly afraid of offending people that they accept every friend request that comes their way?  If someone I had no time for in high school tries to friend me I just click "ignore" and go on my way.  It's not like they get a notification saying "Owen ____ has ignored your friend request!" 

And if you don't have all your privacy settings on maximum that's just asking for trouble.

It's just that you didn't used to have to even click a button to ignore these people. Merely being on the internet used to be enough. Now we have to do something to avoid them, just like in real life. Sure, you can cross the street and pretend you're talking on your cell phone and don't see them, but it was nicer when they were living in another state and it was just never an issue.

Interesting you bring up privacy settings because my experience is that the illusion of privacy on Facebook is what persuades some of those people to participate. But even if you trust Facebook that much, really - if you say something to a room filled with twenty or however many of your friends, you are so positive that none of them will ever repeat it? Someone was just telling me a story yesterday of how she noticed she'd been unfriended by person A, and person B told her "oh yeah, A just posted an update that said she'd unfriended all the bitches on her friends list."