Did I just get sucked in?
Dec. 10th, 2005 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jianantonicWhile waiting for Jer to wake up, I've been cleaning...my inbox...I've got like a zillion unread messages. They're mostly not even spam, it's just that I've made email my number one method of contact with so many folks, it's hopeless sometimes. Well, that's not entirely true. I respond to all email, eventually, but now that we're so busy at work, I don't have the time to devote to it that I did when we were slow. But anyway, I got to the bulk folder and I see this message from facebook.com saying someone has added me as a friend. The first thought that went through my mind is "I have a facebook?" Then I remembered creating an account about forever ago because *someone* keeps telling me to sign up so I can look at pictures of all the guys he thinks are cute. But I never even did anything with it and forgot about it. I see how obsessed the aforementioned individual is with it and I think, I don't need something else to keep me at the computer. I've only recently been able to pull myself away from the damn thing. I am happier being blissfully ignorant of the wonders of facebook.
And there's not much to do really but stalk people. It's basically like an electronic yearbook where you can read what other folks write on your autograph page. And the pictures don't suck because they weren't taken by school photographers who intentionally make you look terrible. That's half the fun! So there was nothing really to draw me in. I forgot about it and left my facebook account for dead.
But then I see this message from some kid I literally haven't spoken to since high school and barely even remembered. See, this is what happens when you get obsessed - you contact people you were never friends with out of morbid curiosity, and eventually you run out of people you know and you become a crazy cyber stalker. Like my friend, who browses friends of friends of friends to find cute guys. I guess that's harmless, but come on! GO OUTSIDE AND SEE THEM IN PERSON! If you meet them somewhere other than on a computer, they might actually be dateable! Nothing against computer geeks, cause I kind of am one, but seriously. Would you want to get with someone you only met through mutual cyberstalking? Yich.
And I'm married, so it's not like I'm cruising the 'net for hotties. But anyway, I clicked on this random high school person's account, and because said person had ventured so far out of their realm of actual friends, I found almost every person I knew in high school on their friends list. And I got to clicking. Where did they go to school? SHE married HIM?! Then I caught myself. I was doing it. Stop it, Meg! My 5 year high school reunion is less than a year away. If I really want to know what these folks are up to, I can do it then, in a much less creepy way. So I closed the website, thought about going to the gym (high school reunions must have that affect on folks), and decided to type this entry. Jer should be awake soon. He's in his 7th hour of sleep now. I'll give him one more hour then I'm waking him up. I want to start my day:) I want to go outside like the cool people do.
Peace.
And there's not much to do really but stalk people. It's basically like an electronic yearbook where you can read what other folks write on your autograph page. And the pictures don't suck because they weren't taken by school photographers who intentionally make you look terrible. That's half the fun! So there was nothing really to draw me in. I forgot about it and left my facebook account for dead.
But then I see this message from some kid I literally haven't spoken to since high school and barely even remembered. See, this is what happens when you get obsessed - you contact people you were never friends with out of morbid curiosity, and eventually you run out of people you know and you become a crazy cyber stalker. Like my friend, who browses friends of friends of friends to find cute guys. I guess that's harmless, but come on! GO OUTSIDE AND SEE THEM IN PERSON! If you meet them somewhere other than on a computer, they might actually be dateable! Nothing against computer geeks, cause I kind of am one, but seriously. Would you want to get with someone you only met through mutual cyberstalking? Yich.
And I'm married, so it's not like I'm cruising the 'net for hotties. But anyway, I clicked on this random high school person's account, and because said person had ventured so far out of their realm of actual friends, I found almost every person I knew in high school on their friends list. And I got to clicking. Where did they go to school? SHE married HIM?! Then I caught myself. I was doing it. Stop it, Meg! My 5 year high school reunion is less than a year away. If I really want to know what these folks are up to, I can do it then, in a much less creepy way. So I closed the website, thought about going to the gym (high school reunions must have that affect on folks), and decided to type this entry. Jer should be awake soon. He's in his 7th hour of sleep now. I'll give him one more hour then I'm waking him up. I want to start my day:) I want to go outside like the cool people do.
Peace.
