Recorded, mixed and mastered in Logic Pro by Paul Fifield in Windsor, CA, in 2022. Backing tracks created in Band-in-a-Box. 

• Vocals - Paul Fifield
• Electric Bass - Byron House
• Drums - Brian Fullen
• Acoustic Rhythm Guitar - Pat McGrath
• Electric Rhythm Guitar - Darin Favorite
• Electric Rhythm Guitar - Mark "Sparky" Matejka
• Electric Soloist Guitar - Brent Mason

I am currently a reticent and sporadic user of social networking. I wrote this song as a humorous sort of protest song, but one that contains a warning about the power that social media companies have to manipulate information for their own financial gains in support of their growing political and social clout. Some references have become dated, like Twitter, which is now X, and the reference to “your farm’s doing fine” hearkens back to the days when it seemed everybody on Facebook was playing FarmVille and sharing each bit of progress. It turns out those were the innocent days.  - Paul Fifield

Antisocial Networking Blues
© Paul Fifield 2011    All Rights Reserved

I'm in a Twitter about Facebook, I'm afraid it's invading My Space
It's turning me blue, I don't know what to do, I can't keep up this networking pace
I’m answering posts in the morning, Linked In every afternoon
Can't follow the trails of a hundred emails
I've got the anti-social networking blues

Hey, thanks a million for sharing, TMI from your consciousness stream
Say one more time, your farm’s doin’ fine, I’m gonna run in circles and scream
You want me to see how your hair looks, after wakin' from an afternoon snooze
And thank you for Tweeting, whatever you’re eating,
Got the anti-social networking blues

         Ain’t those people the nicest, for puttin' up these networkin' sites
         Connecting is cool, but am I a fool? Something doesn’t feel quite right
         Internet trolls keep sucking on souls, till you can’t hardly reckon what’s true
         We happily Tweet, when we should be discrete
         I got the anti-social networking blues

Can't Face all this socializing, I know it's invading My Space
It's taking its toll, we're out of control, and Tweetin' all over the place
When your Messenger offered a MeetUp, I Reddit and Yelped Yahoo
‘Til I realized I've lost control of My Life
I've got the anti-social networking blues, oh yeah...

    Networking’s splendid, until you’re unfriended,
    Got the anti-social networking blues, uh huh,

    Got the antisocial, nearly going postal,
    Got the antisocial networking blues….