Facebook

I have been on Facebook now since January. While I have totally enjoyed finding old friends and classmates, it has really lost that shiny new nickel feeling. Unless you have enough friends that actually KNOW you, any comments you make are lost on people who have simply added you just because they shared some luke-warm canned spaghetti across the table from you in 5th grade. The people that DO know you fairly well, are normally so consumed with the hundreds of other friends they have, that it is just an exchange of fairly obvious sentences that fall D.O.A for me.

So, I end up just lurking and scrolling and reading. Posting the occasional minutia that occasionally will gain a few responses - if out of sympathy if nothing else. Don't get me wrong - if I sound like I trying to drum up some Facebook business I am not! There is a good deal of modern technology that just gets lost on me, only because it just seems so insanely silly and sometimes clinical. I have to say, I miss reading the blogs and the goings on in peoples life that have that personal touch ... vs. going to the a virtual wall and sharing one liners. (Yes, I would rather read an entire blog of one liners! That's just me.) I realize, however, we live in a world where no one has "TIME" anymore and I think that is how things like Facebook and Twitter are born. Which I think is a good thing, at least in theory. But do people really need to know what other people are doing EVERY moment of the day? Is this leading to where we will have the ability to just have a video on our shoulder all day long with a live feed to a website where all your contacts can actually watch your every moment, instead of just reading about it? In that sense, technology will always get any eye roll from me, I'm afraid.

I am not throwing in the towel on Facebook but I am not hanging my hat on it either. If I must be technologically sound, (heh heh!) give me a blog, email or...what is that thing....OH, a telephone (is that still considered technology?) Facebook, for me, is starting to feel like pulling on a pair of panty hose that are too small.

So those are my mind melds of this evening. Now, I am going to go make a sandwhich, then watch some more TV, then shut off the lights, then pick up my cell phone, then walk up the steps, then turn on the lights, then go brush my teeth, then turn on the bedroom TV, then change, then pull back the covers, then shut off the lights, then get in bed, then pull the blankets back up and watch TV. I will let you know tomorrow if anything else happened....

:)