If you haven’t been paying attention (or even if you have, the facts remain the same), I’m writing songs about criminals from the 1870s for FAWM. I was looking through the pictures to find an-other interesting crime to write about, since I finished the one I was working on to-day.
I saw a comment on one saying that if these people had Facebook they wouldn’t have time to go steal the things that they stole.
I have two contentions with this:
1. It might just be the way I’m making these people out in my songs, but the types of things they stole were things that were, more often than not, essential. Things like boots or clothing or bed clothes. One guy stole some beef. Having something distracting your social life is not going to fulfill those essential needs. Talking with your friends is not going to make your feet warmer.
2. Facebook is not a thing to do; it’s a way to do a thing. Facebook is not an action in and of itself; it’s simply a method to interact with other people. People in the 1870s - I’m sure - also interacted with people; they just did it differently. Again, talking with your friends is not going to fulfill your essential needs. Unless, of course, one of your friends has a solution to your problem.
