Confession. I am not on Facebook, and don't really know what it's all about. What I do know, is that I feel very out of the loop.'Hey cool people, I'll send out a Facebook thingy this week about my totally awesome party.'
'I'm not on Facebook..'
'Oh? Well, um... I'll try and maybe send out an email too, maybe.. if I remember. Do you mind if I go back over there and talk to all my cool Facebook friends again?'
Yeah go and have your stupid exclusive Facebook party with all your hip mates, I don't care. I have stacks of other good things that I can do by myself. And none of you are invited.
See, it hurts, doesn't it.
What do you actually do on this so called Facebook of yours? I hear that you poke people or something or other. Sounds like a barrel of laughs. What else do you do, I am genuinely curious? I know you can get friends, and have a list of all your friends. That sounds pretty awesome in itself, I guess.
It's too late for me now, anyway. If I joined today, I would just be a bandwagon jumper, and you'd all say 'oh I remember back in 2007 when we were totally Facebooking it up, and ... oh, what's that Ben? You weren't on Facebook until 2008?? Ohh..'
I don't care. I don't even want to be in your gang, anyway. As I said I have stacks and stacks of really great and exclusive things that I can do on my own. I can't tell you what those things are, because you'd just be too upset and jealous of their sheer awesomeness.
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Hey, I looked for you on facebook, but I couldn't find you. I figured it was you snubbing the rest of us. Hmmm. Sometimes I like fb sometimes not so much, and I don't do the silly poking things.
One word for facebook brethra.
poop.
get a life ya derros and call someone or meet people the old fashioned way.
The groms I shape for setup a myspace and a facebook thingo for me.
I don't get it. There's nothing to do on it and everytime you go there, you get off only having found out what other people are doing and the fact it has nothing to do with you.
ihave not been invited to one party or event and half the so called 'friend' I will never see in m y lifetime.
Awesome fun though.
Pete 'poked' you.
'Poke' back?
amped.
Stick with it Ben.
Facebook reduces relationships to a bunch of status updates.
Now now Ben, you classic! Facebook is so non-exclusive, really, because it's free for anyone to join. So, no one has good reason to feel miffed and out of the loop - except if they can't be bothered and choose to stay out of it :). Facebook is what you let it be. You can go crazy and sign up for your school reunion, become friends with people you can't remember and send them muppets and aquarium fish, or you can just let it sit there, collecting the odd message from people who don't have your real email address, gathering invites to cool stuff :). Go on! I dare you to join up and not get addicted! ;)
I'd be your friend! From then on, all you need to do is see someone with someone else you know and it's perfectly legitimate to be their friend.
confession - i am also not on facebook. people have 'invited' me to be a facebook friend. people have told my husband on his facebook that they wish i was on facebook too. but whenever i ask someone what its all about i don't get a really clear answer - except that they think its great. and then i think "no thanks, its just one more way to waste time on this time sucking machine."
confession #2 - i was recently reading on my husband's facebook and an old friend from college was one of his 'friends' and i would love to catch up with her and maybe some other old friends. so i am now seriously contemplating joining (can't believe i am writing this out loud!) if i do and you do, ben, you can be my 'friend' - but no poking, okay.
I am not on Facebook, and don't really feel that I am missing out on much...I guess the important thing is not whether you are on Facebook or not, but whether you can cultivate worthwhile relationships with it...
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kristina-- nah, not snubbing, just don't know how to do it!
pete-- yeah the thing that i don't like is the idea of of reading about a bunch of people I don't even really know..
drew-- yes, I agree. It also adds one more complication to get in the way of simple, normal face to face communication.
Ali-- no, it's not exclusive in that anyone can join, but it's exclusive in that once people join they seem to forget about communicating with those of us who AREN'T on it.
And all this counting friends business sounds kinda primary school to me. I have twenty friends. Well I have 23 friends, so nyah.
Lu-- hold out sister. Keep the faith. Don't give in to the dark side.
AY-- yeah, that's true. I wonder how many worthwhile relo's are cultivated.. Yet, I'm sure it is an awesome thing for some people. Just not my cup of tea..
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