facebook

Today, I re-created a facebook page. You won't find me. I used a code name. I mean, people who know me could maybe find it, eventually, accept that I'm supposedly only accessible to friends, which I think means I have to add them first. In any case, I completed the registration process, wrote a little bit in the description about how I'm just doing this so all of you can send me pictures. Then I made sure my privacy settings were in lockbox form and realized I was at the point where it was time to let people know I was back. And then I remembered farmville. And the feed of who said what and when they said and what so and so thought of how they said it. And I remembered that I've been able to stay in touch with most of my friends without facebook- with real, intentional contact. And I decided I wasn't sure I wanted to do facebook again. I just want a way to see your pictures and to view events and get your e-mail. That's it. All I want. Maybe twitter? My bf keeps tellling me to get it, that I'm missing out on her life. I just checked her feed and discovered she mentioned me twice. Who knew? Well, I didn't, but I was there....

Oh, the tough questions of life. To network or not to network, that is the question.

My now-former co-worker told me last week that her church did a poll of all the 20 somethings that came to one of their events, some 200. 90% only had 1 good friend. 90%. 1 friend in whom they could confide. How many "friends" did they have, I wonder? I don't want to have to keep track of the 500 fringe people. I want to invest in 50 closer ones. Does that make me mean? Smart? Introverted? A Luddite? Or just normal and willing to admit it.?