Everyone seems to be caught up in the Facebook craze. I thought I was safe at work (once they blocked it) and at home. But now even Jenna has been sucked into the vortex that is Facebook, more specifically the little Mafia game on Facebook. I have to be honest though, I just don’t get it. (I don’t get twitter either for that matter.) Now I know a lot of people think that if you blog you should get Facebook because it’s basically blogging. I disagree. I don’t blog for other people though because I have no pretense that people actually care what I think. Facebook and Twitter are basically the same thing, espcially since Facebook updated their site several months ago.
I loved the idea of Facebook when it was a more mature Myspace. It was a place to reconnect with friends from childhood that had disappeared when they moved away or when we graduated college. Now it’s nothing more than a glorified Twitter where you can share exactly what you are doing at that moment, plus you can throw snowballs at people and post pictures. And of course let’s not forget about the all important “Friends” on Facebook. People actually care about how many friends they can have on there and I’ve even heard of people competing to see who can have more friends. Really?! I have people from high school asking to be my friend and my only thought is “We didn’t like each other in high school. What makes you think we are friends now?” I’ve even heard people say, “It’s not official until it’s Facebook official.” What does that even mean? That nothing is life is real until you post on Facebook about it? How pathetic are we a society that we think this way?
Maybe it’s just because I don’t think people care what I’m doing every second of the day and to be honest, I really don’t care what they are doing either. Nor do I need a website to list who my friends are so I don’t accidentally forget.