Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Facebook culture of narcissism ? ME too !

I am beginning to wonder if ubiquitous Facebook is involved in some form of PAYOLA scheme. You can't even say " Good Morning " to affable  Channel 10 TV newsman Frank Coletta except via the Facebook route. A letter in today's  Providence Journal by Craig O'Connor makes the same point about on-line comments in the newspaper ( " No fan of Facebook ", Feb.10 ) 
                I like Frank Coletta but for more than a year now I have been annoyed by his 4:30AM invitation to early rising viewers with Facebook access: " If you say GOOD MORNING to us , we MIGHT say good morning to YOU ". And I always think: " Isn't this a little condescending, Frank ? "   There is a tradition of egalitarianism  even in class divided America.
  But nothing makes our day more than some TV celebrity acknowledging our existence ?
          Is this the secret of Facebook: Making any of us two bit celebrities in our own little world  ?
 So anyway, from upscale Knightsville : " Good morning, Frank ! " ( make my day, Frank ! )
            Alas, even fame becomes a trivial pursuit.

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