Popular old guest-blogger Erik Nilsson tipped me about the guy who paused his own wedding to update his facebook account:
That’s gotta be the perfect combo of status listing - listing his new status and acquired wife the very microsecond they materialize – and freeze listing – too busy to update his list to even have the time to enjoy his own wedding as it happens.
It shouldn’t be too far a guess that the guests were busy, too, keeping their cell phone cameras high up in the air to record the wedding for later enjoyment.
In the yestermillennium, it was the booze that made people not remember yesterday’s wedding. In the new millennium, it’s the status listing and freeze listing that inhibit us.
Then again, he can always go back to that freeze list and relive the wedding. Or refresh his memory as to whom he married, if he wishes to avoid marrying her again the next time he marries…
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Håller på att läser din bok just nu och ville bara säga att den är grym! Den gav/ger mig en aha-upplevelse. Du sätter ord på alla de tankar som jag gått och tänkt på den senaste tiden.
Angående uppdateringen av statusen på facebook under bröllopet, så håller jag med om att det verkar vara svårt att njuta av ögonblicket. Då kanske man bör fundera på varför man gifter sig, om det är för alla vänner på facebooks skull eller för sin egen?
Lovisa,
I’ve promised myself and others to keep this blog in English, so I hope you don’t mind I answer in the “wrong language”. Thanks for your kind words, I really appreciate them! And I love the question you’re posing – if updating the facebook status takes priority over enjoying the marriage act, why does one marry, indeed? As people marry, re-marry, and marry again (which we do at accelerating pace in the new millennium according to statistics), could marriage be reduced to being yet another episode in our daily next operas? “Tune in for my next episode, where I’ll be marrying this guy!”
emvehå,
MD