’30 Reasons Girls Should Call it a Night’ – Facebook Group Revels in Explicit Self-Revelation
Needless to say, this is an extreme form of digital litter. These photographs, posted by the Facebook Group ’30 Reasons Girls Should Call it a Night’ are all over the Internet and a hot news item:
As if the hangover weren’t bad enough, thousands of young women have the added humiliation of millions seeing their wasted debauchery on Facebook.
A user group entitled “30 Reasons Girls Should Call It a Night” has posted more than 4,800 photos of blotto gals on the town, over the toilet and in the bar, often with their panties showing and their faces three sheets to the wind.
Switched.com offers some commentary on this group which has grown to more than 150,000.
For illustation, here are the top five “reasons” the girls give to join their ranks:
- You have absolutely no idea where your friends are.
- You have absolutely no idea where your car is… wait did you bring your car??
- You’ve become convinced that dancing with your arms overhead, shaking your ass, and yelling WOO HOO is truly the sexiest dance move EVER.
- You’ve suddenly decided you want to kick someone’s ass and honestly believe you can do it (bitch…i ain’t playin…).
- You start singing 80′s songs at the top of your lungs and showing off your dance skills to the car next to you.
This new-found pride in inebriated debauchery goes along with an increase in the amount and frequency of alcohol consumed by young women and teenage girls. A study performed by the British government recently found that the average 15 year old drinks the equivalent of a bottle of wine every week.
Although the non-user who tries to access the Facebook group’s Web page gets a message indicating he/she must log in, the photographs are everywhere. You can find them on the Fox News and Switched.com reports and most anywhere else.
The social networking phenomena, and its accompanying seductiveness to reveal one’s personal life in unsparing detail is indeed a new phenomena. Fred Stutzman is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who researches identity, social networks, and the effects of social technology. He gave a lecture on Facebook which addresses the enormous social impact it has had upon its users who are mainly college students and young adults. It’s fascinating to watch in this context.