{"id":386,"date":"2007-09-05T21:09:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T15:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/09\/05\/facebook-and-schadenfreude\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T21:09:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T15:39:26","slug":"facebook-and-schadenfreude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/05\/facebook-and-schadenfreude\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Schadenfreude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hypothesis that my quarterlife crisis is really just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/07\/16\/dont-braise-your-eye\/\">pent up teenage angst finally being let out<\/a> is being supported from my schadenfreude-laden reaction to joining Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The brilliant thing about Facebook is not that it allows you to meet women. In fact that&#8217;s one of the scariest things about Facebook. You add a woman you know in passing and then discover that she&#8217;s a Hezbollah member, or believes in natural contraception. But that&#8217;s another story. No, as I was saying, the brilliant thing about Facebook is the schadenfreude it lets you indulge in when you run across old batchmates. In this respect it is far superior to orkut.<\/p>\n<p>On orkut, the old school batchmates I was running across were growing their hair and writing pretentious poetry. Which is just so putting off that you don&#8217;t even feel schadenfreude.<\/p>\n<p>On facebook, however, I discovered this dude who used to be a heartthrob across three batches. Tennis player. Basketball player. Three thirds. And now he&#8217;s gone to seed. Beer belly. Puffy face. Bad haircut. And a job which is much worse than mine on the scale of corporate whoredom. It was glorious. It was like the ending of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120032\/\">Romy and Michele&#8217;s High School Reunion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Such are the cheap thrills which I get these days. It&#8217;s definitely my teenage years finally catching up with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hypothesis that my quarterlife crisis is really just pent up teenage angst finally being let out is being supported from my schadenfreude-laden reaction to joining Facebook. The brilliant thing about Facebook is not that it allows you to meet women. In fact that&#8217;s one of the scariest things about Facebook. You add a woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quarterlife-crisis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-6e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}