"Hi, My name is Melissa... and I am a Facebook-aholic." "Hi Melissa!"
That is pretty much how it would go if there were meetings for people like me...
Let me explain... I have had a facebook account for about a year now. It was not until recently that I started using it. I don't know when my life spiraled into hourly updates of Melissa is ... but it has... and now, I cannot stop!
I am a nosey person. I like to see what others are up to, people from my past and present friends alike. And who knew there was this whole online world going on in which I can see at a moment's notice what everyone is up to?!
I have family on facebook, so I guess it started as a keeping in touch thing... than as I began to use it more, colleague's began friending me, and friends (or should I say people I knew 10 and 20 years ago) began popping up in my request box.
I don't mind this, I enjoy getting in touch with those that I lost touch with too long ago to remember. I have actually been in touch with 2 Friends that I really wanted to find. However, with this addiction, I cannot help but think - if I have not kept in touch with you, and we all went our separate ways years ago (high school, college, life in general), what would we really have in common now?
(current friends and the 2 long lost friends excluded, of course!)
I guess this stems from seeing people on my friends "friend list" that were never really friends when we went to school together, or worked together, etc. Is this where I realize that others are just as nosey as me? Or is it the need to have 200+ friends on your page to validate oneself?
Don't get me wrong, I have a ton of friends on facebook, and I can't really classify all of them as true friends, but some of them, I just don't think could have taken the rejection had I not added them (insert sarcastic laugh here.)
Perhaps I am just thinking too much of it, and I am missing the point. Facebook is a great tool for reconnecting, I guess even if you didn't do much connecting in the past. Maybe facebook is onto something, and they are forging friendships of the future...?! Who knows? and despite my questions of friend status, you can bet I will be signing in tomorrow morning, and updating my current where-abouts, whatabouts, and do-abouts...
...because no matter the addiction, my momma didn't raise no quitter!
(that one was for you sissa!)
3 comments:
me, too! and if you find meetings, save me a seat! But, i too am no quitter!
Hey there! Thanks for delurking! Come again soon!
BTW, I've totally become a FB junkie, too. I've only been a member for a few months and have reconnected with entirely too many people. It's crazy!
Its crazy the people that come out of the woodwork on facebook! But a fun kinda crazy! Stay warm everyone!
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