Anyone else addicted to facebook?
I am trying to keep it to a minimum of 1/2 hour a day. It isn't working.
Do you know what I like most about it?
Sure, seeing old friends on facebook is neat.
I've been hooking up with and talking to people who've found me or I've found them, but I haven't seen or heard from them in 20 years, that's pretty cool.
The instant gratification, yup. Love it. The sweet little garden gifts Penny sends me... adorable.
But I must admit, it is the voyeuristic sdie of me that is really caught up in facebook.
Once you connect with someone, you're able to click into their profile and see how many friends they have, read their conversations, look at their photos. It is really neat to see how people you knew so long ago have grown up and changed.
But there is a tiny piece of me, the eternal nerd, that reverts back to a high school popularity contest. So and so has more friends than I do. She was always more popular, funner and cooler than me. She still looks fantastic...
Wierd hey? That after all this time there could still be this fifteen year old neurotic teenager inside of me, measuring myself up to everyone else?
'I only have nine friends and SHE has 154...'
How annoying.
I wonder if, no matter how far in life you get, how much personal success and growth you achieve or how you change and metamorphasis, there will always be this awkward kid inside who comes out when you least expect her to.
I highly doubt Hillary and Oprah have spent a flick of their time or energy worrying about where they rate on Facebook.
But Belinda Stronach has over 6,000 friends.
See where I have been WASTING my precious time?
How else would I know that?
My goal this week: MUCH less facebook.
I can't say 'NO facebook'.
I'm not ready to say goodbye yet.
I really am hooked.
