Facebook, the Mean Girls and Me

1. Title: Facebook, the Mean Girls and Me
2. Source:  Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. “Facebook, the Mean Girls and Me.”   You too, you too,. Eds. Goshgarian, Gary and Kathleen Krueger. 2011. 591-593. Print.
3. Summary:  This short article is about a woman who had a falling out with her best friends in seventh grade, then years later how she found them all on Facebook and talks to them as if nothing is wrong or ever happened. All because she is still longing to be liked by these girls whom of which she doesn’t really have much in common with anymore. In the end she wants to go back and wants to tell her 12 year old self  that she made it through life and everything would be “OK”.
4. Quote:  “Why do you need to be loved by people who rejected you a hundred years ago.” (Brodesser-Akne 593).
5. Response:  With the way life works, personally, I believe that, everyone truly does want to be liked by the people that they know or have known throughout their lifetime. Anyone can try to deny it, but when it really comes down to it we all know it is the truth.

             As you grow the first people that you always want to accept you as a person, is your family, because they are always going to be there for you when you need them most. Next comes your friends, you think they are always going to be there when the truth is you don’t really know if they are still going to be there for you tomorrow, so you do anything to get them to stick around.

             Then comes your love interest even if you don’t think something is going to work out you stay because you want it to work and want the other person to be there for you when you need them most. Lastly, the people who you don’t know when you walk into a room, it’s easy to think okay no one knows me I am going to make this work while telling then things about me that might not be one-hundred percent true.

 At any age no matter what it is you are the way that society has conformed us all, we will always want to be liked by everyone. In the end, the world might just be a better place if we cared about everyone else instead of just ourselves.