Last night I saw the film Inception, and while that was a fantastic movie (featuring some cool Edith Piaf music), after leaving the theater I found myself thinking about trailer they showed for The Social Network, otherwise known as the facebook movie. The trailer begins by showing various facebook photos, status updates, and wall posts set to a choral arrangement of Radiohead’s Creep, written by frontman Thom Yorke. This really disturbed me. Now, I’ll pause here and concede that I’m as regular a facebook user as the average joe… I’ll post pictures, update my status, “like” things, and be alerted to the goings on of 700 people I’m either friends with or (more likely) acquainted with. Isn’t all of this what facebook is about? Heck, 95% of you reading this are doing so because I posted a link on facebook.
However, after seeing this trailer and hearing those self-loathing lyrics coming from creepy (no pun intended) and forlorn children voices, I was honestly kind of sad. I became nostalgic for my first year and a half of college where we didn’t have facebook, and thought about how different (and maybe better) people’s lives would be if there were no facebook. Now I’m not a total hypocrite–facebook is great for a lot of reasons, too. But watch the trailer and pay attention to the lyrics and the way they express a desperate need to feel cool, special, wanted… maybe that’s what facebook is all about.
I don’t care if it hurts
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I’m not around
I wish I was special…
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