Own/buy your friends...

[dalekboy]

On a completely different note, am I the only one who finds Facebook applications like Own Your Friends/Buy Your Friends, kind of skin crawlingly offensive?

I'm not for sale, I am not owned. What there is of me, my friendship, love, and affection, is given freely, as it should be.

Comments

[haircaspian.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I hadn't thought of that, since obviously it's not real ownership. I can see an issue of interpreting it as "do you care enough to buy this person", then who buys who would be symbolically important. As I said, I haven't noticed it with those apps, but many facebook things seem to try to tug at your heartstrings like that "if you care about person X, participate, otherwise you don't care". I found that annoying bullshit. Now that I consider it, yeah it is offensive that the same things are probably being said with me as person X.