Well, I admittedly signed up for that thing about a year ago at the behest of an old high school friend. We email each other occasionally, and perhaps he thought it would be more fun/convenient to keep in touch that way. And I suppose it would, if either of us used it a whole lot. His wife is downright addicted to it, and she has admitted such. At some point, I started posting rants in the thing about work and she coarsely pointed out to me that it was probably a bad idea, and not but a day after I removed them, people from work started adding me, so I guess she was right. I mean, a person in my precarious state of constant near-unemployment should really not take any chances anywhere.
Still, although I refuse to let Facebook link up with any other services I use, email, etc., I do enjoy playing some of the games on it during those truly bored moments in life, and, although I am not particularly interested in making contact with people from my past lives, I am also not particularly opposed to it, and must say that I have been
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*nods* Yeah I think I'm in the same boat - if I really wanted to pursue people, I'd play detective. But FB is the easy (lazy) way to keep that contact. I really don't think I'd find them otherwise...which is exactly what appeals to me.
*laughs* "Not particularly interested, not particularly opposed to it." I think that should be the rally cry for Facebook users
Awww...you are very very sweet :) I must admit I can be a recluse at times and not available for weeks or months on end..but I do enjoy chatting with you when I'm on
*gasp!* You don't care enough about me to read my LJ posts! XD
Alas.
If you really want to know what is going on in my life, you could just ask. People don't ask enough. I've been thinking of stopping with the life updates on my LJ entirely so that people have to ask me what's going on, but I'm scared that if I did that, nobody would care enough to bother.
*nodnods* I think my only problem is encountering people who point me to their LJ when I ask how they've been and refuse to answer me otherwise.
Asking how someone's been for me really is one of the few ways I keep in contact with people. It's low-grade conversation at best, but it does create a kind of bond between us, even if the answer is as simple as "good...and you?"
Of course, not reading someone's LJ posts is NO indication of how much I like them *slurps ya*
Anyone who responds to the question, "How have you been?" with, "Read my LJ." is an ass, IMHO.
Real life face time is so incredibly important. To blow off small talk with someone like that? To me it means, "You're not important enough for me to talk to. Go look at my press release to see what I've been up to."
Yeah, small talk is small talk. But I still think those random, almost throw away sentences really set a stage for the rest of the conversation. I don't want to be told to go do research and then come back later. That sorta ends the conversation right there for me.
I wish there was some kinda filter of pertinent information only...but the catch-22 is that for some people there really is no other way to find out how they've been doing. Of course, multiply that by 100 people and 100 journals and it quickly becomes daunting, and in the end I settle for a 5 minute conversation at FC of "So, how've you been this past year?"
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Still, although I refuse to let Facebook link up with any other services I use, email, etc., I do enjoy playing some of the games on it during those truly bored moments in life, and, although I am not particularly interested in making contact with people from my past lives, I am also not particularly opposed to it, and must say that I have been ( ... )
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*laughs* "Not particularly interested, not particularly opposed to it." I think that should be the rally cry for Facebook users
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Swants the shit outta you with Rios scepter! Take that!!!! ;)
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Alas.
If you really want to know what is going on in my life, you could just ask. People don't ask enough. I've been thinking of stopping with the life updates on my LJ entirely so that people have to ask me what's going on, but I'm scared that if I did that, nobody would care enough to bother.
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Asking how someone's been for me really is one of the few ways I keep in contact with people. It's low-grade conversation at best, but it does create a kind of bond between us, even if the answer is as simple as "good...and you?"
Of course, not reading someone's LJ posts is NO indication of how much I like them *slurps ya*
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Real life face time is so incredibly important. To blow off small talk with someone like that? To me it means, "You're not important enough for me to talk to. Go look at my press release to see what I've been up to."
Yeah, small talk is small talk. But I still think those random, almost throw away sentences really set a stage for the rest of the conversation. I don't want to be told to go do research and then come back later. That sorta ends the conversation right there for me.
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