Entry Posted August 31, 2009

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/08/facebook_status.html “Asserting your social status with your Facebook status.” e.g. one update is glossed as: “Your life is worthy of envy, but it is not perfect — otherwise everyone would hate you, and we can’t have that. And so the fabulous undershare must strike a counterbalance, and the results can be fantastic. This updater’s status, nominally a complaint about a nasty hangover, is really a subterranean boast that (a) the updater has a Dionysian appreciation for the high life, (b) has rather limitless supplies of Rose [sic] wine, and (c) is in Ibiza.” 21:57

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