I came home from church and sunday school this afternoon to find that the house was a wreck...not that it was any better when I left home, but Darin had been here all morning with 2 kids, and nothing had been done. He was pleased to announce that 6 people had added him as friends on facebook. He is Mr. Popular. So I got lunch for myself and a couple kids and sat down with the laptop to check my facebook account. I had a hard time signing in, but I checked the caps lock key and double checked that I was typing my password correctly. Then I tried Darin's password for his facebook account (yes, I know his password) and lo and behold, I get logged into HIS facebook account. No way! I ask him what he has done and he starts to realize that he may have messed things up for me. He changed his contact information in his profile including his e-mail address. He changed it to the e-mail address that we share, and the address that I happen to use to log onto facebook. SO as a result, I no longer exist in the world of facebook. I am not on his friends list, I am not on Kate's friends list, and I don't exist if you do a search for me. GREAT. We have sent an e-mail to facebook to ask for help, but I don't know enough about computers and the internet to know if they can find my profile and restore what I had as a profile.
So as I began to ponder a world without facebook I started to think I could use this blog to share information and photos with people that I care about. Yes, I can do that, but it does not serve the same purpose as facebook. There is no networking, no stalking, no status updates. I do know this though, I am going to get a lot more done in a world without facebook. Maybe by spending more time blogging and less time stalking I will be more introspective and self-aware. Or maybe I will be more neurotic and wonder about what my friends are doing without me in cyber space. Will they miss me? I better find a way to tell them about this blog. I will make Darin advertise it on HIS facebook account....if I let him use it before they fix mine. Right now he is banned.
1 comment:
The trouble that men cause !
I find Facebook to be such a time sucker. I sit down for 5 minutes and I look up and it's been 50 minutes !
However I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that it has enabled me to catch up with so many people that I never would have without Facebook. So many friends from high school that I enjoyed interacting with (you being one of them) and now I get to see that they are married and have kids ! So cool !
Anyway. I am enjoying reading your blog and glad that we can catch up using what else ? FACEBOOK !
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