I have this theory.  I have this theory that if we eliminated all baby, wedding/romance, food, and "news" from Facebook, we'd be left with nothing.  By "news" I mean all of those re-posted special interest stories and advertisements that keep us entertained at work, but feel like a waste of time to read at home.  My theory is of course a result of years of observation and careful data analysis...that's a lie. All I really do is take note of how annoyed I become every time I open Facebook and assume that my level of annoyance is directly correlated with the number of these things (baby, wedding/romance, food, "news") posted on my feed.

Of course the abundance of these categories of posts on my Facebook feed is probably a reflection of my stage in life.  I'm in my mid-twenties (I sense a quarter-life crisis quickly approaching with my birthday) and despite my choice to be a student eternally, most of the people in my life have made significantly more career progress and thus interpersonal progress.  This interpersonal progress is reflected in my friends' (I of course use this term loosely) weddings, and romances, and babies...and food(?).

But still, don't we have better things to be telling our little worlds about than our children and our relationships?  What about our career success, the vacation we went on, the cool antique book we found at a local shop, the delicious coffee we had at breakfast.  I don't know, just, other things!  More variety!  We must as a collective of people in our mid-twenties, have more going for us than marriage and babies.  Those two things are just about the most mundane and average things I can think of to tell the world about.  Where's the adventure!?  Someone has to be having some fun in their lives while I'm still in a perpetual state of academic.

Apparently though, if you're not a student you're married with children.  I guess that's just the way of the world.  You go to school, then get married, then have babies...and cook pretty food (?). And I'll probably conform to that same status quo at some point in the future.  Who knows, had I not chosen to be a socially stunted academic for the next 8 years of my life, maybe I'd be the one posting wedding and baby pictures.

There is, of course, a simple solution to my problem.  Stop signing onto Facebook.

Keep on thinking,
Josie