Such a hypocrite

I am about to complain about two things that I do myself, thus making me a hypocrite.

I was random Facebook stalking (it's 1AM and I'm in that "no sleep" cycle again) some people and I found that, first off, if you have a generic name like "Jones" or "Smith" that it's nearly impossible to figure out who you are from the many generic first names (sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone here) such as Amy, Jessica, or Katie or Matt, Mike or Ryan. Incidentally, these are none of the names that I was searching. This isn't one of those things that I'm here to complain about, but seriously. Name your kid something different if you have such a bland last name.

Oh, wait. That is something hypocritical. I named my son "Jack" which is one of the top 20 I think for 2010. But, to be fair, our last name isn't generic.

So, first on my list of hypocritical Facebook faux paux is not sharing anything other than a) generic artsy picture, not a photo; b) sharing a group photo so I can't tell who you are in the tiny thumbnail I'm allowed to see and c) posting pictures of your children and/or pets rather than yourself.

I am a big offender of this one. However, I don't particularly want people to know that I am who I am. Also, my kid is infinitely cuter than I am. I understand that this is exactly fictional Jessica Jones' reasoning for not posting a photo of herself, but damnit, I want to know if I look better than you 10 years after high school. Why not let me have my moment?

Second is this, why make every scrap of information private and THEN NOT SHARE A PHOTO. Good lord. Are you in the witness protection program? Should you be allowed on Facebook at this point? I'm pretty sure I don't pay taxes to protect you so that you can just flaunt your gender and name to the world. (on that note, hypothetically, how does the government stop teenagers from experiencing life online while enrolled in the program? photos shouldn't be posted, right???)

I keep every piece of information on my profile private because I think it's creepy that people can randomly look into my Facebook page and check me out. Also, I don't want pictures of my kid being flaunted all over the place in random ads and stuff. I've seen it. I try to keep that stuff as private as possible and know that nothing that I put on the internet is truly private no matter what I do. Thus, me keeping a blog and posting videos on youtube. I get that I am being a hypocrite. If you're here to judge me, read the title, opening sentence and every other sentence in my writing and then decide whether it's really appropriate to repeat the redundancy with a comment. Odds are I'll just laugh at you and delete your comment without posting it to the world.

I realize this is a completely useless blog and has no point whatsoever except to let me bitch about things that I am in clear violation of doing myself. I am tired, procrastinating and practically snowed in (okay, this part really isn't true, the plow was successfully able to come in and clear us out), not to mention cold. I want my Snuggie and I don't care who knows it. It is fuzzy and has penguins on it.

That is all.