People These Days

I've just realised what incredible narcissism a website like this is.

It's self-obsessive, gratuitous and self-promoting - and I'm loving it to death.

I log on and look at myself, talk about myself, select my own elite group of 'friends' and share my information just as selectly.

Now we know what the answer is when they say "what's wrong with people these days?"
It's the fact that we only ever deal with the edited, photoshopped versions of ourselves and we get to choose what aspects of ourselves other people see and read.

And at the same time, there's an opportunity to attract outside interest from strangers all over the world which, in itself, is pretty gratifying - and let's face it, if you've got the right log-on or web photo, you can pretty much hedge your bets.

My husband used to call me Gypsy, and logged me on as Gypsy_Eyes when we first discovered ICQ (sadly, I discarded the nickname when my husband discarded me) and I was guaranteed a bombardment of hits every time I logged on.

The internet - a chance to lie all you like, and never get caught or sued. Institutionalised 'bullshitting' - no wonder people just don't trust other people anymore.
Oh, I'm getting SO old!