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November 20, 2008
Uncharted territory
I’ve been at this whole blogging thing for a while now, right? I’ve been pretty narrowly focused though. While I’d heard of Facebook and Twitter I just hadn’t bothered until recently. Hell, I think even my mom beat me to Facebook (humiliatingly, she has like four or five times more friends on Facebook than I do.) Anyway, over the summer I finally signed up for Facebook because there was some college reunion group thingy they told us about. Imagine my surprise when old friends, classmates and former co-workers started getting in touch with me. I was really psyched to hear from some of them.
One day my elementary/middle school archenemy sent me a friend request. Our parents were really good friends, so we ended up spending a lot of time together, but we fought a lot. In fact, we got in to a physical fight in 4th grade. Only time I ever hit someone – ok fine, slapped and hair pulled. I responded because I wanted to see what she looks like now. Pretty normal, actually. Another girl who didn’t even like me in middle school just sent me a friend request, and I accepted because it seemed like it would be rude to ignore her. Is that rude? Because honestly, I had almost forgotten she even existed and we were never friends. I was a little horrified to note that she joined a Keep Christ in Christmas group the other day, that not being a central worry of mine. It’s right there in the word for Christ’s sake (ha! I crack me up! I mean, I’m sure no one’s ever made that stunningly obvious joke before). Those two aside though, I’m really happy about all of the people I’ve reconnected with thanks to Facebook.
Stuff like this does run the risk of making me feel old and unhip though. I like the photos and the fun status updates and the finding of friends and the connecting with people. I don’t quite get the Lil’ Green Patches and giving of gifts and sending of Karma. Am I a bad Facebooker if I don’t give people stuff?
I also got a Twitter account this summer for work reasons, and since I had an account, I started following some of the bloggers that I already read. But of course I was unable to resist actively trying it myself. I’ve started dipping my toes in the water of Tweeting lately and it turns out that finding really short ways to say stuff is kind of fun. I was all "140 characters, whatever, I'm sure it is boring." I totally underestimated it.
Are you on Facebook and Twitter? Having fun with it? If not, do you plan to start? Or do you intend to stay far, far away?
By the way, if you’re interested, you can find me on Twitter here.
Posted by Bad Penguin at November 20, 2008 11:42 PM
Comments
yeesh, since my sister is now on twitter, does that mean I can't make fun of it anymore/ hold it in a special place of disdain in my heart?
Posted by: tim at November 21, 2008 1:10 AM
Someone from high school that I didn't remember once sent me a friend-request with a nice note on MySpace. I thought, ok, what the hell, and accepted the request. She then mysteriously "disappeared" from my friends list shortly after I added Hillary Clinton and Obama. hmmmm.
Posted by: LaurieH at November 21, 2008 5:58 AM