Facing the World

At first, I resisted creating a Facebook account.

I blog, I surf; basically I already spent way too much time on the Internet. I did not need another time sapping activity.

Then my husband signed on. Fine, I will check his account every now and then.

Then, I noticed that FB was becoming a way to contact people. The land line, curly cord telephone was so 1980's. Cell phone, so 1990's. Email, Y2K.

Facebook was the new way to contact people, and not just the cute guy who sat across you in high school physics, or your camp bunk-mate from middle school.

So, I signed on.

Next question, who is my friend? Do I accept, or request, everyone? Everyone who I have ever talked to, or seen down the street, the cute guy from physics, the camp bunk-mate I haven't seen since that summer?

Just because we lived in the same town 20 years ago, does that mean we are to be FB friends?

And who is appropriate to have as a friend? The teenage girl down the street? A friend's son? An ex? The cute guy from physics?

***Before rumors are started, there was no cute guy in physics. In fact I don't remember who was in my physics class, let alone what I learned. Though, I do remember our teacher's hair looked like a bird's nest.

Does it matter? (who your friend is, not that I don't remember anything from physics.)

It has been fun catching up with those I knew in high school and college.

I've also learned things about people I would prefer not knowing.

Then there is the downside of Internet communication. A lot is lost, and added, to typed words, virtually transmitted across screens.

It has become a convenient way to pass along information.

It has also become a time sapper.

Do you have a Facebook account? Do you check it weekly, daily, hourly? Do you update your status? There is good and bad sides to all this technology, what do you think?

Withdrawal!

HELP!

I can't post on Facebook. I can't check the status' of my 126 closest friends.

My hands are trembling. I'm feeling jittery.

I MUST post somewhere. So, I share with you, to help lessen my withdrawal symptoms while I wait for Facebook to come back up.

Do they have a patch for this?

BTW, our food is now chillin' - I just had to share that. Thank you.