I was talking to a girl friend at church one day, and I mentioned in conversation some info I had read on a mutual friend's blog. She replied, "I don't see how she has the time to blog....I much prefer Facebook. I've got over 100 friends from high school and college that I've reconnected with."
A few days later I had a similar conversation with another friend. Both assured me that I could sign up and view their friends and see what everyone has been doing for the last 10+ years.
So while Doug was busy enthralled in the Super Bowl, I created yet another log in name & password to remember. It was a little anticlimactic.
This week I got requests from 7 people to be friends (okay, this reminds me so much of grade school that it's enough to turn me off). Two of these people I don't even know!!! I suspect they were classmates from high school, but seeing as I don't know for sure and I've made it nearly 13 years since graduation, I think I'll pass on the chance to reconnect.
Maybe I'm cynical and cold. Maybe I'm just technologically behind a few years. Maybe I just like the anonymity of reading strangers' blogs than taking the time to look up people with whom I shared a few classes.
So if you want to be my friend, I'll say yes. But don't look for any updated info there. I'll be blogging.
This is exactly how I feel about facebook too. I've never actually had an account but have been on under Nae's sisters account. I just feel like the people I want to keep up with I have and if we haven't kept up then we're not really friends, but to each his own I suppose.I would blog even if no one else ever read it because it is a scrapbook of sorts for our family. BTW, do you remember Melissa (Ann's roommate) she has a blog now. I'll have to e-mail you her site address.
ReplyDeleteAmen. I have had around 15-20 emails since last week from people that I know that want me to "be their friend". I refuse to get on this bandwagon! I know some Moms that are totally addicted. I don't need any more idols in my life!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you , Julie!!! Not to mention that facebook seems to boil down to a bunch of little sentence-long quips, often with little substance. And as far as blogging taking up "too much time"...well, some of us write really fast :)! And I think it really saves time because I don't have to send out pictures/updates to all the relatives and so on. I also love having a written record of our life. It is so fun to go back and look at/read about what we were doing a year ago.
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