September 4th

Question Of The Day

10. People are watching us. What do they see?

I think they see a weird lazy person. I think I am very different with my friends and my family. To my brother, I am the "big bro" of him. To my friends, I am "the comedian". I'm the one who's always being witty and funny, always with a joke to tell. But to people of my acquaintance, I am a  funny person, always being lazy and fooling around. 

Obviously, we can't ignore what people think we are in social networks, for example, Twitter and Facebook, the only ones that I have. I don't check them much, because people's posts make me facepalm all the time. 
The biggest part of my social interactions through Facebook base on commenting or liking people's updates, because I don't make many status updates. 
I use Twitter less than Facebook because of what we call "indirects" (or indireta in Portuguese). It consists on saying what they want to say to a person, but not mentioning who they are. For example, they say "I don't like you" on their updates, but don't complete the sentence with the "target's" name. The right way to say is with their names: "I don't like you, Deborah", for example. In my opinion, these "indirects" only show that people are cowards and don't actually try to understand the people, but rather criticize them (it's ironic that I'm criticizing them in this post). Almost all the time, I'm only reblogging Bento Ribeiro's updates, that have no sense at all, but is funny. 

To conclude, I think that people have lost much of their privacity through social networks (even though they create Facebook accounts by their own will, and they allow that privacity to be invaded). Also, through those networks, people don't only expose themselves more to acquaintances, but also to other people. They "add" more "eyes" to watch them.