Sunday, October 31, 2010

Farewell, Facebook?

I think my interest, fleeting as it was, in Facebook has worn off.  I seem to be checking it less and less, and then responding with a yawn to most of what I see.  It's been nice reconnecting with people I hadn't seen or spoken with in years, but it's occurred to me that there's a reason why we lost contact in the first place:  we were acquaintances, not friends. If they were telling me on the phone what I'm reading on Facebook, I'd be trying to think of a good excuse to hang up -- so why engage in a timesucking exercise that involves even less actual personal interaction?

4 comments:

  1. I've never considered Facebook. My friends can follow me on my blogs or they can go to hell.

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  2. Anyone from my past can type my name in a search engine and find my blogs. But I don't give a damn if they do or not, I've changed a lot and I'm not apologizing to anyone for that.

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  3. I never got the point of facebook except as a way to find people or be found. Day to day it did nothing for me. I closed my account last week.

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  4. I just joined facebook, but am carefully limiting my "friends" to actual friends and family that I'd like to keep up with. Some of what gets posted is boring, but I do enjoy knowing that my nephew's team won his hockey game or my friend got a new car - things they wouldn't necessarily take the time to email or call me about, and that I wouldn't otherwise know because I live across the country from them.

    It has its place.

    But I don't understand the folks with 382 "friends." Who has time to keep up with all those posts?

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