By Sing to the tune of J Giles Band – Angel is a Centerfold (for all you 80s friends out there you know it) but it works as a nice stand alone poem too – I’m an anti Facebook person and now Instagram blew it too -selling out to Facebook! Enjoy!
Facebook Friends You Got Sold
Perhaps you’re wondering why you rarely see my updates anymore,
But here’s an update, a flash bulletin: Facebook’s a pimp and you’re their whore.
Flaunting your data in dark corporate corners around the united interweb
Selling everything once held private to everyone who’s interested.
My updates old
My memories are just like Gold
Facebook friends – you just got sold!
Facebook friends – you just got sold!
Facebook tells you when I’m sleeping and somehow, when I’m not
If I’m too tired to pen an update, some think, “what a snot!”
Friends might sigh and ask themselves, “she’s always been so hautey!”
When honestly, I seriously was just reading in the potty.
My updates old
My memories are just like Gold
Facebook friends – you just got sold!
Facebook friends – you just got sold
Neither could I care if your kid went poop or took a nap,
Furthermore, why should I care when you think you might have yourself a gap.
To use Facebook as a forum for announcing births or deaths and such
It’s something I cannot handle, using Facebook too, too much.
My updates old
My memories are just like Gold
Facebook friends – you just got sold!
Facebook friends – you just got sold
So if you want to reach me mail a letter, text or voice upon your phone
And if conventional’s inconvenient, do a fly by via drone.
I’m just a shout, an SMS, an email from being in your life.
However, don’t expect Facebook to tell me about your lovely wife.
I’m sorry if I have offended anyone inadvertent if your needs,
But I’m not Facebook’s bitch to slap around for corporate greed.
When I got engaged I thought a moment to send something you would have “liked.”
Ill considered when you think about how my spam box would have spiked.
My updates old
My memories are just like Gold
Facebook friends – you just got sold!
Facebook friends – you just got sold
Ha ha ha ha ha ha hahaha haha ha hahaha!
Updates old/memories just like gold….. Yeess, I know you write from your soul/Agree with you on the whole ( your poem/song) . An excellent one. Loved it. 🙂
Clever!