Shelley's Tangents

Alright, so I completely get the point of things like facebook, Myspace, twitter (even though the name of that one could be improved… I mean it honestly sounds like you have to go to the bathroom).  However, their purpose and what they are used for now are completely two different things.  I don’t do Myspace… I think that is too much for the kids or mentally kids.  Twitter I just cannot get past the name.  I did sign up for Facebook for one reason.  I knew that one of my friends from high school was there and I wanted to find her and a few others.  Not many mind you, I didn’t like them that much when I was stuck in that damn place.  I find now that everyone wants to add me as a friend (even those that didn’t talk to me then).  Oh, and even my ex husband wanted to be my friend on there.. and is completely pissed that I ‘ignored’ him and it’s like I don’t exist on there.  (That is one application I would love to have in real life.)  They bugged me to add some pictures, so I did… but then I go and read their postings and just shake my head.  I don’t care to know every moment of the day what you are doing.  Not at all do I care if you are relaxing by the pool, then eating dinner, then watching a movie.  Honestly your life cannot be that entertaining if you are attached to Facebook this much.  There is one that every day will post that she’s doing this or that with or without her ‘adorable husband’.  I’m not joking, that line is there every day.  One friend just sent a message saying to respond to that message or he was going to take you off of his friend list.  Really?  Because I don’t care.  I can see comments here and there and I have done them because it seems that this is the way to communicate with your ‘friends’ when you really don’t want to sit and write out an email.  Don’t even get me started on all the ‘invitations’ to do all the bunch of crap that I don’t even care about.  In my free and bored time I have done some of these and I can tell you I’m not impressed at all.  Apparently there are those that take this completely seriously… I as you can see am completely not one of those.

I fully understand here that he was an important figure to some, that people loved his songs and all, but what I don’t understand is the media response.  I don’t think it’s so much just this case, but this is the one I’m going to go off on a tangent about.  Yes, he died.  Millions of people die a day, but yet when I turn on CNN or Fox News or when I go to the websites to catch up on my world news all I see at first is him.  Seriously?  A week later there is nothing more important going on in the world than his ass?  It’s frustrating to me.  This country seems to have it’s priorities completely ass backwards.  I could completely understand that day it happened and maybe things here and there afterwards about him in the news, but honestly is his death more important than the other news?  This isn’t the first time this has happened, but every time it happens it never fails to boggle my mind.