Facebook

Sometimes I think facebook is evil. It's a hate/love relationship I have with it. I know I spend too much time on there reading people's posts, commenting, updating. I'll get around to deleting it when I feel like making the time to back up my photos. I feel that facebook is redefining friendships. We get offended when people don't respond to our comments or "unfriend" us. Words are interpreted how we choose them to be, so anything you say can be taken the wrong way. We put our own voice to the words we read and I have found that to work against me quite a few times. I have no energy to debate or argue anymore and it truly makes me resentful when this happens. What started as a fun way to talk to my family and friends who live nowhere near me, is now a place for debates/arguments and needless "stalking." The people who matter know how to contact me and I know how to contact them. So there's no reason for facebook anymore. My family doesn't use it. Frankly, I don't know why they even have one. It is nice to peek in and take a look at their photos of what they're doing, but that takes the fun out of catching up. I'd rather have a personal invite to check out their photos.  Otherwise, it's online stalking. I could probably be doing better things with my time without facebook. One less distraction from studying.

Also, more than half the people on my "friends" list don't deserve to know what's going on in my life. They make no effort to keep in touch with me, so it really does confirm that I'm just wasting time by reading what any of them are posting. It doesn't matter. I should be focusing my time and energy on people who care and love me and I love them back. I have a nice little hand full of fabulous people in my life and they are who matter. If I'm bored, that's who I should be writing to, sending a card to, or having a Skype date with. We should all be making a better effort to keep in touch with people who matter in our lives. Typing is cheap. Phone conversations are real and organic. E-mails are more personal. There's limitations on facebook with what you should post and you have to be careful with what you say. In other words, I really can't be myself on a public website like that. This one doesn't count of course. haha.  The fun has slowly gone away and I don't want people I work with in my business. See what I mean about the redefining of friendships? I feel a courtesy obligation to accept friend requests from people I work with, even if I barely talk to them. That way, I don't offend someone and make things unnecessarily awkward. I'm a low maintenance gal and this is becoming a high maintenance activity. I'm pretty much over it.