Ever noticed how some of your friends whom appear normal in person have developed the tendency to flip out and do a complete 180 on their Facebook status's with the likes of “I LOVE JUSTIN BIEBERS NEW SONG!!” or effing & blinding left right & centre??? Well then it’s highly likely that your dear friend (Hypothetically I’m going to call your friend Jane) is part of the heavily contagious condition affecting hundreds of thousands of users of online social web sites and media applications. A condition I’ve named as Facebook Tourettes. See, Jane, your mate is usually a very conservative level headed person whom you feel you can confide in...about anything. She holds a stable 9-5 job is married and has a wonderful house where she regularly hosts dinners and back yard get-togethers. Yet for some reason at coffee (you met for coffee recently) she neglected to tell you her feelings towards the repositioning of the marshmallows at your local shopping centre. That’s right, instead of ironing out the distress this change has put on her immediate life with you (as you would her) face to face...she "shelves" the idea...for now. It's only half an hour later that you realise the preposterous statement has you questioning Jane’s upstanding reputation and general state of mind. Poor Jane, she doesn’t know she suffers from it, that’s where the condition gets tricky…easy to diagnose hard to cure. Maybe we all have a bit of Jane in us, I'd be lying if I said I've never used Facebook or Twitter as an outlet for expressing something potentially damaging to my own reputation but thankfully the advertisement of my personal emotions was short lived experiment…so next time you go to state something to the world (well at least the 524 friends that exist in your world) stop and think back to this…because you may be at risk of FACEBOOK TOURETTING!
I'm just sayin.
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