Using your facebook updates to try and show other people how great your life is so that they will envy you.
Guy 1: *on facebook* Wow! Great day surfing in San Diego! @Alex Dennis: "How many dollars in a sombrero!" Hahahaha lmao good times!
Guy 2: Why does he need to post that on facebook?
Guy 3: He wants people to click like and validate his post, indicating a symbolic acceptance that his life is better than theirs. It's a classic case of smugbooking.
'Longbooking' is what happens when a Facebook status is too long and contains too much information.
If your status includes the words 'see more' at the bottom, you've just become guilty of 'Longbooking'.
An example of 'Longbooking' in action:
Penny Freeny i really think i need to take a break from facebook for a while. there's just too much drama happening in here. why do people have to be so full of drama? i'm soooooooo over all of it. if i have to hear one more time about how much of a...
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”