I am really not a fan of social networking, but I get the draw of it. It's kind of like having a really unpopular blog *points to self* but on a much larger scale. You can see what friends and family are up to. You can remember birthdays. You can see when your friend Patrick is having a show. You can make your friends Lauren and Josh laugh (you are welcome guys). You can keep in better contact with your homo husband that you don't get to see nearly enough.
So I am not telling my family or many of my acquaintances I have one. I added who I want to add and will accept friend requests very choosily. I am hoping to get to laugh a lot as just being back active the two days has already cracked me up more than once. One of my friends posted, "Don Draper might be a horrible person but at least he has the decency to punch a minister." I live for that kind of ridiculous and offensive stuff!
Anyways, wish me luck in to my new foray in to the darkness. Hopefully, Facebook will die before I have a chance to want to kill it again.
Happy picture of the day: I won't say where Alfred's other hand was, I will however, say that he did the singular of geese me. Also, if a bunch of people goose you at once, is it okay to yell out, "Well good god y'all, I just done got geesed!" 'Cause I think that should start happening immediately.
URRRRRRGH! Why are you posts not showing up in my feeds, apart from this one????
ReplyDeleteI've just recently started back on Facebook and for me, it's all about fun. Nothing is off limits, which probably explains why no bugger wants to 'friend' me.
From the position in which you're standing, I can guess where old man Hitchcock's hands were. :)
I am having fun with it. And I'll stay until I'm not.
DeleteYou say you will delete it like that's an easy thing. Now that Zuckerburg has his claws in you, he will not let go so easily. Next for you is Twitter! C'mon, join Twitter, it's fun.
ReplyDeleteIt was an easy thing last time. I will have fun with it and then when I'm not I'll delete. You should find and add me. I'm amusing like 30% of the time.
DeleteMy Hubby thinks FB is the spawn of the devil. My account is beginning to bug me. Whilst great to catch up with old school friends and laugh with my best friends all the advertisements are beginning to drive me nuts. What I need is a fast forward button like I have on Sky (UK version of TIVO)or at the least the option to stop them arriving on my profile without permission.
ReplyDeleteOr a FB version of a bomb so I could visually blow them up and off my newsfeed.
I am just using it to post pics of my animals, tell dumb jokes, and keep up with friends. So far so good.
DeleteI ditched my FB a while ago. Too many uptight people all up in my business. Other people I don't even know all that well trying to be all up in my business. Yeah, it had to go. Not to mention one of my ex-creepers sending me multiple friends requests. When those were ignored, he tried to get messages to me through mutual "friends". Yep, I was done after that. But I do miss catching up with all of my real buds, that are spread out all over the states, which was always my favorite part about being on FB in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I did was block a few people I knew would annoy me. So far it has worked and I'm enjoying being back.
Deletefacebook. i can't even tell you how much i hate it. and, yes, i am moron because i have two facebook accounts. in some ways i feel like you HAVE to to be "relevant," whatever that means. i recently heard that if you are applying for a job and you do not have a facebook account, you will most likely not be considered. employers, people, friends, enemies all want to be able to look you up and find out info on you. i hate it.
ReplyDeletethe most aggravating thing -- omg do i sound bitter and cranky or WHAT?! -- is that everyone seems to post really cheery and really positive and really fabulous things about themselves, CONSTANTLY. barf. it gags me. get real. nobody has a perfect life, and nobody cares about a lot of the facebook updates like, "had a sandwich for lunch!" "heading to the gym!" WHO FUCKING CARES?!?!?!??! and so many of the posts seem to be indicative that people want to be LIKED and HEARD and silently listened to. i just hate it. ARGH! i wish facebook would crash and burn, but who knows how long that will take.
HOWEVER, i will admit that every once in a while facebook comes in handy. i love looking at pictures of family and friends. i like that part. and very rarely i even get a laugh courtesy of facebook. very, very rarely.
so why haven't i opted out yet? i think about this often. maybe i should. i don't know. ugh. ugh!
I no longer hate it. And if I start hating it again I'll just delete again.
DeleteI never had a problem finding a job or promoting when I had no Facebook. I'm pretty sure it would work against me now since I don't have any boundaries with my posts.
This post illuminates how much I don't know about you. Anyone who gets sick of the drama on FB and leaves means...they must have a lot of interesting drama. I will stay tuned in the hopes that some of it leaks out into this blog. Which, btw, I find VERY popular.
ReplyDeleteI've never had a problem with Facebook, perhaps because I love the "hide" feature.
ReplyDelete:)