More Facebook thoughts

As I watch the little "online reunions" happening all over Facebook I caught myself thinking something and it didn't make me comfortable.

I'm in my 40's and Facebook is spreading for my age group worse than the crabs at the jock dorm.....uh, that's a different story though altogether.

Anyway, two thoughts running through my brain.

One is all these friend requests and people you don't seem to remember but they have all your high school friends in common with you so you figure you must know them, right? And one must not be rude. Was I that popular in high school??......actually I guess I was that popular and cool so I shouldn't be too surprised.

Second is seeing people I made out with in Jr. High/High School/College. Now, it is all fine and everything we are all old and married now. I don't know..........just weird and that made me think.....is FB just gonna turn into the virtual divorcee bar like Craigslist is the virtual red light district? My guess is yes.

Have you ever ignored a friend request? My deal is I don't want any work people on my friends list. I have one but she lives out of state and really is more of just a friend but she has loads of work people on her friends list. I think everyone should sign a pact not to do that or it should automatically block anyone from your company!

Here's the deal with Facebook.

Okay, so Facebook is about 5 years old and I'm just now getting on it. I was never interested until about 6 friends in a single week asked me why I wasn't.





So I relented.





I am now on Facebook.





I've seen some people say that because of Twitter and things like Facebook that the blogosphere as we know it is old news......like the cassette tape or the beta max. I've read Tony kinda looks down his nose at Twitter. After just a couple weeks here are my observations.





Facebook is not and will not replace the blog. Neither will Twitter. They are not an improvement on the blog they are different from the blog. I don't even think the term micro-blogging fits.





I think Facebook is the latest evolution of something like Classmates.com and Twitter just a more advanced form of texting. Neither offer all the same things as the blog. In my first couple weeks on Facebook what I've seen mostly is "you are now about 40 and you want to find all your old friends from high school and college". Twitter is like an online texting party line or rave. That's it.





The blog on the other hand is a type of self publishing. Many of the people who I read enjoy writing, want to improve their writing and at a minimum see it as much as a creative outlet more than a form of communication between friends.





My blog is a little different in that mine is written under a pen name while other's have developed an amount of fame or desire fame from their work. Regardless whether it is written anonymously or not most people write a blog so they can put their thoughts down in written form. Most of us take time in organizing our thoughts and a typical blog post is hundreds of words....although I've vowed to make mine shorter in 2009. That isn't Twitter and Facebook.





I'm enjoying finding old friends as much as anyone right now but I've seen many on Facebook refer to it as THE ADDICTION. I don't see being that attached to it. I like it better than Classmates.com because you can do so much more for free than you could ever do on Classmates and it is great because it seems like you can find college, high school, old work friends, etc all on one spot. Now that I think about it Facebook is like a combination of Linkedin and Classmates.





I'm not interested in Twitter......texting drives me a little crazy although I do find it useful at times when I don't need to talk but want to get somebody a tid bit of information.



By the way, Life in SOJOCO is now on Facebook as well.





So who is on Facebook? Twitter? What do you think?



I really dislike the "write in what you are doing now".....really annoying.







And as promised on Monday here are prolly my 5 favorite posts from posts 101-200. Ah, so difficult to find just five, okay....how about 7 instead. Hope you enjoy clicking through the memories. Did I miss your favorite?



1. Great Gym Story from last night.....the Kansas Sity Sinic parody post



2. Are you coming to my gym?



3. Johnson County's Best of 2008



4. I hate Nancy Pelosi so much



5. Cinco de Drinko - December 5th


6. Toplikar Out


7. LJ has problem with DV


Again, thanks for reading!