social. uh. media

[helenish]

So I signed up for Pinterest primarily because I needed some way to collect pictures of cute animals and super elaborate, beautiful craft projects I will never do with my children (craft projects in my house go like this

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[jlh]

Hi, er, you don't know me but we have some people in common including Aleesha who linked to a discussion of her meta below and then I read your post and what I actually wanted to say is, I f'ing can't stand FB, but you can actually use it just for the invitations and not interact with it. FB will email you when you have an invite, and while you'll need to go to FB to accept or decline, you don't have to actually follow feeds on FB to get the invites. A bunch of my local friends use FB for their invites so that's what I do.

It's just best to be clear with people (as I am) that you don't use FB for anything other than that, so they don't think you're ignoring them or whatever.

[helenish]

Thank you, this is so helpful!

[neery]

Yeah, be really clear about the part where you don't use FB for anything, ever. Because I also got a Facebook just to join a few exam-related groups, and now I constantly keep accidentally hurting people's feelings because they're all "Why are you ignoring me on Facebook :(" And I'm like "Oh right, I have a Facebook? Why did I think that was a good idea?"

[lokifan]

Whoa, go you! Postgrad with babies!

Also, yes, you will have to do Facebook. I was on Facebook every single day at uni because it's how the whole social calendar was arranged outside of a teeny-tiny circle of BFFs and I could never survive without it, and then I left uni and now I check it every fortnight, if that.

[helenish]

y-e-ah, it's looking like I'm going to have to do it. I mostly just want to avoid having to interact with people high school or whatever, but of course they keep linking to me on linked in ANYHOW, so that ship has sailed. UGH. PEOPLE. just leave me in peace.

[lokifan]

LOL, yeah, I'm like 'there is a reason I am not in contact with any of you! Stop friending me! Stop trying!'

[metaphortunate]

I like Twitter but it's very silly. I just followed you there! Same icon, different name.

And yeah, you kind of have to do facebook these days if you want People At Large to invite you to things. Unless you are my husband. If you are my husband, then your friends merely send ME facebook invitations for you and I have to be your social secretary so you can continue to be an FBRefusenik. :P

[jssangel]

My lordy! What? You're going to grad school?

I just spent an entire day juggling a baby while having really enthusiastic conversations with a tiny person about the metaphysical implications of going poop in a potty. ( A) poop in a diaper = it's with you for hours, B) poop in a toilet = flush! and it's gone! Did it ever exist? Do you really exist?, C) poop in a potty, it is neither one-with-you nor gone in an instant - it's like some kind of nirvana. At least, that's what I am trying to sell.)

Bravissima! I can't imagine being in grad school now. I hope it's awesome.

I wonder if you still live/work nearby. I need more awesome playdate mommies.

[helenish]

I am in Boston now, so. no. (I miss New Yorrrrrrrrk, but only because I've been here for long enough that unimaginable luxury like a back yard and a washing machine seem like "eh, who cares.)

POOP CONVERSATIONS, yeah, we're doing that too. Or, well, we're pretty much done, but it was INTENSE there for a while, and involved multiple daily discussions about how when you poop in the potty, you don't get poop on your legs! OH MY GOSH, THAT'S WONDERFUL. Who likes poop on their legs? Not us! NOPE. Because then there's poop on your legs! It smells bad! It's hard to clean up! That's not fun! I know, RIGHT? So the unending task of somehow civilizing small human animals rolls on.

[bastardized]

hey grad school, good for you! i hope it's something you'll really enjoy, although marketable skills is groovy too. I have a friend with a 12-year-old and a 4-year-old who just joined my doctoral program and it's a bit of a strain, but it sounds like at least you'll all be in the same locale.

+/- insight into the teen wolf cast a/descending into college. well, sans Scott I suppose. i mean amid all these CW shows about our protagonists clawing and hissing their way, minimally, into Yale, there's young Mr. McCall. teen wolf is the best preoccupation to be reverse engineered off fandom in awhile! derek/styles A++, thank you for it!