it has NOT ruined my life, and there are days where i'm fine without signing on once. I like it becuase i get to see events, and pictures from events. It is sorta pointless and you can live without it, but i like it. btw, i NEVER had a nexopia, myspace, bebo, or another similar site, so its not like i'm just one of those people that gets these kind of sites always. Also on facebook there are ways to make your profile very stalker proof, so in general i would be "safe" enough.
Thing is I don't have any friends in college. All my close friends are at school and quite frankly, I see enough of you guys as it is. MSN is enough for me, I don't need a facebook. Maybe I'll get one in uni, but only because I don't want to lose contact. But getting one now seems silly.
I confess I'm a facebook addict, but I also really adore it because I have some cousins in North Carolina that don't have msn (they have aim..honestly, aim is just another example of how the United States tries to isolate itself from the rest of the world) and I actually get to keep in touch with the cousin I'm closest to, as opposed to not talking to them for like, two years at a time. It's also reconnected me with a lot of people I've lost touch with, and that's kind of cool, but some people youve met only like, once also try to 'reconnect' with you, so you have to learn to be kind of discriminate about who you accept as a friend. What's glorious is that creepy people you dont know cant see your profile if you have your security up high enough
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a few months ago my friend set up a facebook account for me, a.k.a. i didn't ask for it or want it really, so i was initially quite annoyed at having succumbed and conformed like everyone else. I know that feeling of shame/irony that you speak of (i mean come on, this is me we're talking about, i am by no means a social butterfly) but after a while, i have found it quite useful/rewarding and it really isn't that addicting. I don't go on very often, but i HAVE managed to (amazingly) reunite with basically my entire elementary school class whom i have not spoken to for 5 years. which has been really really nice, considering i basically lost ALL contact with everyone after gr 6 (not even email!) and figured i would never get a chance to talk to them ever again. (in fact, through facebook, i am now helping to plan a reunion for my elementary school class, which i never would have even known about otherwise.) I don't see any point in adding friends from York on facebook since you see them everyday anyway, so i only use it to talk to
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wow! this is incredibly useful, so merci buckets! I fully get that whole pointless-it-it's-YHS deal. I suppose the only use it would have for me would be getting pictures as I never take any, friends outside of school, and making pointless but incredibly funny groups. I think for now I will resist the wave. But definitely for university! I reeeally don't want to lose touch with our grade... p.s. Jody, I almost actually laughed out loud at "there are days where i'm fine without signing on once"... like a rehabilitating facebook "user". ha.
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