I’m on Facebook. I’m also on LinkedIn and Friendster (though, now that nobody uses the latter site my profile merely exists and doesn’t get updated).<\/p>\n
I love the ability to connect with old friends. I’ve always been this way. I’m reconnecting with many more high school friends via Facebook, and I do love the games (WordTwist, Scramble, formerly Scrabulous), but I still think I liked Friendster better.<\/p>\n
Friendster did exactly what I wanted it to do: let me view people’s profiles and determine if they’re friends or not. Facebook does that, but it’s got too many other things going on at the same time (aside from the games, of course).<\/p>\n
I keep getting these bizarre requests for “Lil Green Patch” or to write on a wall, or to join strange groups (bad british teeth?). Then I feel guilty for not responding to such requests. Well, I feel only slightly guilty because I never do end up responding.<\/p>\n
This is the same reason I never could get into MySpace. Between the ads, and the clutter, I couldn’t figure out how to use the damn site (I feel so old). And speaking of feeling old, everybody on MySpace seemed to be a teenager. Ew.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure where I’m going with this.<\/p>\n
Oh, and the suns out again! For the first time since, I believe 1943, we have sunshine. It’s amazing – I should have brought my camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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