Facebook : friend or foe?

   Aaaahhh....Facebook. What an interesting animal this is. A place to find old friends & correspond with current & new friends or...middle school all over again? I use it as a fun place, to write little stories & post goofy pictures & share music & talk sports & embarrass Kbo. It seems there is no limit to the idiotic things I will do on Facebook. I love to have fun with people...

   But I am very selective with who I friend. I am not in any kind of race to see who can collect the most people. If we are Facebook friends, it means that you or I might find each other at least a little bit interesting. You are somebody I want to interact with. I like reading about your kids & looking at your pictures & hearing about your job...I find it really entertaining & cool to have this little peek into your lives...

   OK, here comes the whiny part. I wonder why some of my carefully chosen friends never interact with me? I respond to their stuff when I can, trying to be friendly & funny but not creepy & pushy. I try to always see the good in people. I don't necessarily think that some of my friends are narcissists or cliquey...maybe they just have way too many friends to interact with. If you have 300 or 500 or 1,000 friends, how in the hell would you choose what to respond to?

   But don't get me wrong. That's a very small minority of my Facebook friends. Almost every one of my friends I have known on some personal face to face level at one time or another. And I don't really think about the other few who never respond, I just find it a curious Facebook phenomenon...

        Which leads me to these two very interesting Facebook features...Birthdays and Relationships!

   I used to be kind of ambivalent about birthdays but I've changed my ways. If it's your special day, the least I can do is drop you a note wishing you happiness. It's the little things, right? Now Relationships...that's a whole other matter. How many times have you seen the happy chatter of someone about their significant other, only to one day see that their Relationship Status has changed to...single? It's sometimes like a Greek tragedy played out right in front of you...

  So those are a few of my thoughts on Facebook. All in all I find it a fascinating place to play. And to those of you who refuse to play...I will hunt you down & eat your liver with some Fava beans & a nice Chianti.


          Oh yes, I can be very creepy indeed....................;->