I know David just did a post about social networking sites but something happened today that I had to talk about!
What is so odd about Facebook is the term "friends" especially when talking about people you once went to high school with. There's "people I may know" that pop up that I went to high school with and I see them out at the grocery store and they can't even say hello. So I'll be darned if I send them a friend request!
Then there's other that I'm acquainted with. I went to a very small country school where everyone knew everyone else name, their parents, siblings, grandparents etc... So when someones name pops up that's a name I recognize but really never talked to in school, not because either of us were snobs but because we weren't in the same classes, I'm torn. Do I send a friend request because maybe it's someone who was considered a "nerd" (aka person completely likely to over achieve in life) and you'd like them to know, nerds only exist in High School and you remember them as a very nice person. But Facebook is not that deep! Or do you just sit back and let what ever happens happen? I've sent out very few requests, it just seems so odd! Mostly family, old friends or fellow bloggers like Lisa or Fawn.
I have reconnected with my best friend from school since joining the site and as she said It's like being back in high school! Putting yourself out there and then realizing how much no one cares. Only now, I really don't care. I don't care how many "friends" I have listed. I'm not in high school anymore and if those people even know I'm still alive it doesn't make a difference in my daily life, or theirs.
I must add this because I find it amusing! I have a distant cousin who is listed as one of my friends and he is a wonderful man! I can not tell you how many people pop up as people I may know that have in their profile pic a pose of themselves with him! I think he has well over 200 friends and I'd just about bet he knows each and every one of them well and they all adore him!
*After I posted this my husband said "What is Facebook? Is it like My Space but less vain?" :)
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4 comments:
I would pronounce it "byoocyrus"
is that correct?
on facebook i make requests with anybody and everybody i ever knew or know. even if i'm not interested in friending certain people, i figure that adding them may help connect me to someone i actually do want to find. make sense?
Yeah, looks like you're right. It's like Beu like bleu without the L, cyrus. My grandma used to say Bucky-Russ. She also called cabbage - cabooge, and me Jennybell!
I'm so glad I've never let myself get talked into putting myself on facebook. It's been so long since I graduated, that even my good friends back then mean nothing to me now. I am nothing like the person I was in school, and even thought they probably aren't either, I feel I have enough people to care about now. I don't need anymore. It's awful to say but if I haven't seen you in over thirty years, with a few exceptions I have NO interest in you now.
Does that sound harsh? I hope not, I'm just not a very sentimental person.
I have a pretty big list of "Friends" on FB because I've lived so many places. Some of the "kids" I knew at my first high school were fun to reconnect with, but then once we got passed the "where are you now?" part, there was no more to say. So I unfriend them. I don't see that as hostile, just cleaning up my list a bit. :) On the other hand, some people I didn't get much of a chance to know "back in the day" have become friends because we actually do have things in common. And my family is spread out all over the globe -- now it seems that FB is catching on in Germany and I'm getting linked to friends and family there, which is great.
I'm totally addicted to the status update thingy. I know that I'd be addicted to Twitter, too...
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