Facebook.....what have you done to the world?!?! As I was almost at 1000 friends earlier this spring/summer, I noticed that something was wrong. Do I know ALL these people(well actually yes to a point of if "knowing" is passing them at a bar or having 1 mutual friend whom you haven't spoken to in years.) Then there was the whole Farmville incident. I had a huge problem with this whatever it was so I started deleting people who played that game or collected sheep or whatever you do on there. Then I noticed the massive amounts of fake people who would request my "friendship". And BTW, once again I will announce, my life is far less exciting then some of those make it out to be so you're definitely not going to find any crazy secrets or facts that aren't already apparent. I started deleting most info from my profile and cleaned out a lot of my friends list(which I am still doing). Even though having 666 friends for a while was super cool. I barely post photos anymore and I'm considering just taking the whole thing down. FB, you and I had a good almost 6 year run. I think it may be time to break up.
But......what was life like pre facebook? I don't even think I can recall! I got it my final year of college and I've watched it evolve into this devious, social stalking scene! It used to be so pure and innocent. No news feed, no kids that didn't have a valid college email. Now we have 8 year olds running around and gosh only knows what the teenagers of the world are doing on here. Eck! Imagine being in HS and having this? I already felt awkward enough!!! I bet kids that are "going out" breakup via FB Wall. Ohh the horror! I recently had a friend of mine that deleted her profile due to getting into 'fb zone out' periods that would last up to 4-6 hours. You know like when you sign on and 5 hours later you have no idea who's profile you're even looking at and why! It happens to the best of us. I truly can say I don't use FB too often anymore but that is because I have another online addiction called shopping, right now. I don't know which is worse. Whatever.
The worst is when you are obnoxiously asked out or talking to someone at a party and instead of getting asked for your phone number or asking for theirs, you find yourself giving out your full name or visa versa so you can find each other on facebook. It's sooo classy. Totally turns me on to go home that evening and look this new hot boy up to find pics of him blacked out with his buddies. HOT! And I can't say much about mine either. I may not drink now but ohh did I used to. Definitely not the cute way either, more like the alcoholic way. Another obnoxious thing is the guys actually may be worse stalkers than the girls! I once was on a 1st date and even though this kid and I continued to date for a while, it was initially quite weird. I believe he took a god 3-5 hours memorizing everything about me from my facebook profile then proceeded to get drunk and would accidentally slip facts about me out. Ohh see like that is the perfect example of why social networking should sometimes be forbidden. Anyways I'm over it. I've been over it but the only thing is that I've made the best online buddies from random pages that I wrote on or shit. People that I have met through interests. Such as having the same favorite band to having the same favorite tennis player(what up to my Nadal peeps!)
So what do you think? Time to retire? Or just let the stupid thing sit there and use the messaging system? I would, of course, have to keep "And Who Are You Again?" up until I figure out how to follow and get followers through Blogger. I have an email address that I love to use and a telephone number too. And I am pretty close to using those as my only communication. Does everyone feel like I do? I know i quit myspace way before everyone else but that thing was just on a whole other stalking level and contained real stalkers. (I loved that you got a profile song though and I think that's one reason why I kept it for the time I did. Ohh and my AWESOME Britney Spears background and Brit themed profile. Love her! People might have mistaken it for a Britney fan site. Very possible hahaha.) I hope you all consider this as well. Facebook Free! yah!
Peace & Love
S
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