Friggin' Facebook.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 5 comments link this postYes.
A semi-profane title.
You remember my friend, and my feelings on social networking sites?
For some reason (I just wonder why), after that post I started getting annoying invitations to join networks and web sites that I wasn't even a member of. Perhaps some of you readers thought that was really funny.
So, with those emails bombarding me, I began clicking through and I discovered I was a member of Friendster since...a while ago. I also confess to being a member of Catster, though I can't remember any of my login information and one of my cats has died since then. Brutus (the living cat) continues to get electronic kitty treats which do him no good and fill my inbox. Why do cats need to social network? What was my original purpose? Can't I have some kind of personal integrity?
Apparently not.
I finally caved. I signed up to every piece of crap social networking site I could bear. I've got all the links hidden somewhere on this site, with a great deal of shame.
And now this is what I get on my Facebook profile. My friend has been writing on my "wall."1
Friend: YEAH! It's Julie. She rocks. She loves Facebook. She wants to be pestered by Sarah via Facebook often.
Me: No. No, she doesn't.
Friend: You don't fool me....
Me: Stop abusing this privilege.
Friend: NEVER!!!!!!!
Me: This is why I hate these sites.
It's these little things that make me want to implode.
With all of these accounts freshly opened and crying out for abuse, I now get emails with requests of people wanting to be my friend. I find myself with strange "friends" and forced to say things like "nice dog" and "hi" and I just want you to know that I CAN'T POSSIBLY CARE ANY LESS!
Last night some barely dressed 19-year-old wanted to be my "friend" over at MySpace. Sorry, honey. I'm just not into leopard print.
Grrr.
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1 I don't suppose anyone over at Facebook considered the ominous realization that, by using such terminology instead of just saying "leave a message", each user would glimpse the "writing on the wall."
Labels: facebook, friends, internet
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5 Comments:
I keep getting an e-mail that says "Meet someone naughty tonight". As interesting as that sounds, I still delete it. I don't know that I could resist leopard print though?
By 
, at
6/9/07 08:37
Interesting timing. I just went to Facebook to sign up and stopped when I saw that it required everything short of your pin number.
By 
girlfriday, at
6/9/07 09:05
Congratulations. We are myspace friends.
.....
I guess this is the point were I say "OMG" and "lol" about fifty times.
By oldtranslations, at
6/9/07 17:17
OMG!
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
6/9/07 17:43
Ack, you lose!
No wait, I quit. There.
By oldtranslations, at
6/9/07 18:03
