Musical Interlude: The Police - So Lonely & Facebook precaution

Here's one to give your self-imposed loneliness a catchy feel to it.
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To ramp up your loneliness quotient, consider modern day communications as a potential mood inducer. In the post-post-Industrial world, most human interaction is now done online via sites like Facebook, Hyves and Twitter (TM). Farming is now enjoyed with electronic coins and push-button animatronics, with a virtual free economy and false ego inflation by meaningless awards mixed in with the most personal of announcements.

In addition to providing 'meaning' the 21st century life, it appears that social media is now possibly helping people get out of desperate situations. Getting depressed and heart- (and head) broken humans to turn their lives around with the aid of others. Thus, if you are on the long-term end of sadness exploration and wish to continue along the tear-strewn path, you may want to avoid expressing anything but a cover story to all friends and colleagues.

A more elite scheme (for both online and offline conversations) would be to avoid really saying anything to anybody & keeping as much bottled up inside. Never reveal your true feelings to anyone; if for some strange reason you've become happy, pretend to be sad. From your root mood of sadness - lie and say you're alright, chose a random mood for when you feel neutral. If simply excluding your regular associates from real communication doesn't work, make yourself see & ruminate on how often and 'well' other people stay in touch.

Whatever you do, don't write on face book that you're in trouble. That just gives do-good busy-bodies like the woman described below more opportunity to feel good about themselves. To ruin one's own sadness attempt and also provide another with happiness is not a recipe for success in the exclusive school of sadness studies.

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Stu Bykofsky: Can Facebook help save lives?
Stu Bykofsky - Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Columnist
May 13th, 2010

HOW FAR would you go to save someone's life? How hard would you push?

Jennifer Domal did what her Christian faith called upon her to do, even though the person was a stranger, no more than a name on Facebook.

Some people reveal the most intimate details of their lives on Facebook, maybe more than they should, out of loneliness or fear or ego or other urges I can't imagine.
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