In regarding your latest post, I liked your posts from ethiopia better because that was what I missed most. However, I think as long as you keep blogging your observations you would still be in touch with your self.

Moi: eshe what???
Friend: go check out sarah(name changed) OMG she just got married!!!!
Moi: OMG you rushed me for that! who ca
Friend: umm what happened, cat caught your tongue? See what i mean?
Moi: wowwwww, she gained so much weight! Wait… is that a baby? Did she have a baby?
Friend: YAAAA!!! i think that’s why she’s marrying him. He’s so short?
Moi: yaaa… ummm.
And so the story goes…

When i’m an observer, i usually find such behaviors “typical” and just wrong.” Facebook is for socializing, it’s to bring us all together… it’s to reconnect us, to chat and be “true/real” friends” i say… Yet i too am not immune to falling for that trap of being the judgmental participant in the craze that’s facebook. The truth is none of us really, truly care that we’ve reconnected. What we all want to reconnect with as you said is with the “image.” we all want to see what the selams, the sarahs, [insert name here], etc…have become. “amarebachew?” “weledu?” “besmam, menew alech?” etc…
i’ll even go further, from personal experience, i find that with all my confidence and “temiminet” i find that i compare… case in point, in the above mini conversation between my friend and I, we both internally were observing not the wedding, not the “background story” but instead at least for me, i was comparing where i was in my life (how i look, my education, my dating life, etc…) with the bride. My mind goes… “wow… she’s married. It looks like a good wedding; maybe they have a good job and all. At least i didn’t have a kid out of wedlock. i should think of being “serious” about marriage, and oh, betam alweferkum, etc…” I can’t believe my own thoughts… it shocks me at times. Facebook does that to me.
i usually don’t worry about getting married by 30. I check out facebook, i worry…
I usually don’t worry about the year and make of my practical car. Enter facebook…

Is this an abesha thing? or is it just worse with us? Or is it in all of us to want to know that others are more screwed, fucked up, fat, broke and lonely?

the status thingy, it minimizes duplication of efforts, don’t you think?

hate him or love him, you gotta give it up for zuckerberg for having made a billion dollar for every year he has lived on God’s green (cobalt blue) earth.

the time is ripe to form an opinion on chinese men (in addition to the women, that is), kind of prepare for the inevitable, because in the words of russell peters “Indians & Chinese are the TWO Biggest Populations on Earth … So you can run from us now. But sooner or later, we’re gonna hump you.”

” Me with my afro and typically Ethiopian unseasonal dress code…..”. Hilarious and so true. Only an Ethiopian could laugh at this. On this cold winter day, after so many years, I am still the most “unseasonably dressed” person in the office.