Larry David: the secret to Facebook success?
Charles H. Green on his Trust Matters blog suggests that studying Larry as he appears on Curb and as portrayed by Jason Alexander in the form of George Costanza on Seinfeld is one way to better our social networking skills. He writes:
Larry David (he plays himself on Curb) is cheerfully, honestly, forthrightly neurotic and self-centered to the nth degree. It’s not that he’s proud of it; he’s just saying that’s what he is.
The fun, of course, is that David is merely more honest than the rest of us. We can laugh at him without directly facing the social pain that his behaviors cause us when we commit them—which we do, all the time. He is our public court jester. He speaks the truth in a socially acceptable manner—as comedy, with a subtext we needn’t publicly acknowledge. But we know it. He’s doing public self-psycho-analysis, and we’re along for the ride.
Check out the rest of the article, it’s interesting reading for fans of Larry and social networking alike.