Getting some face time

A year ago you would wonder around the Internet reading news posts and blogs about how wonderful Facebook is. “Facebook is here and we love it!” “FACEBOOK IS GOD!” “I worship Facebook and so do you!” “I left my wife and kids to run away with facebook!” “Watch my dog bark out Jiggle Bells!” Its crazy what some people write about…

Now here we sit a year later and the articles and blogs are more about how Facebook is horrible, its ruined lives, and how they curse it. Keep in mind these same people updated their Facebook status to show they posted the article about how they despise it, then proceeded to send a super pokes to everyone they know!

I always get a good giggle when people I know sign up for the first time. It’s always the same thing. They didn’t sign up because they wanted to, they will say… They signed up because they were tired of hearing about it, or their job wants to know why they don’t have a profile there yet, or their friends and/or spouse is on it 24/7 so they feel they need to sign up just to get back into their lives. A lot of times these folks I giggle at were actually trying to avoid Facebook! Like it was that virus everyone is getting and they are trying to get away. But in the end they sign up and it starts out with, “Yeah I have an account there now but I don’t have any friends and I don’t have any idea how to use it. It’s really strange and I don’t think I’m going to give it much time at all.” Then by that time the next day I have 147 request from that one person who has sent me flares, super pokes, plants, sea shells, friend suggestions featuring people I’ve never heard of before, kidnapped, snowballed, I.Q.’d, calendar entry requests… for crying out loud!

Now these new members who made such efforts to avoid and hate now surf Facebook like it’s made out of chocolate. (Which would be cool actually…mmmmm….)

We all understand Facebook as that fad that will last awhile but many will lose interest from or get distracted for the next shinny thing on the net. But for now, it’s our sugarman! We needs it! We must know what is on it! What can I send everyone I know next?

Now I’m not here to bash or put down Facebook or any of the other social networks out there. Personally I think they are great tools for keeping in touch with friends, family, co-workers, strangers from other countries, trends in fashion, gaming, marketing, business… They serve a valuable propose. Heck, soon your email accounts will connect you too all your different social networks in one spot as places like Yahoo, MSN, Gmail all revamp their email sites to include tracking and updating social networks. Soon you won’t have to jump from candy bowl to candy bowl to eat up all the lovely social chocolate but swim around in your own pool of it! And it will bring all they social chocolate right too you!

Though its topics like this that make me wonder if the future painted in the movie Wall-E isn’t far off. In which case get out there and buy yourself a Wii Fit so that you can at least get some exercise in while updating your status!

I will say that people should learn to spend less time on their social network of choice. Keep tabs on loved ones but avoid sending virtual plants we can’t actually take care of! If you want to kidnap someone or invite them to your virtual mob? Then there better be some real life money that comes a long with that! Just how many freakin sea shells do you need that sit on your badly pixilated beach? REMEMBER TO LIVE PEOPLE!!

Though who am I to really say anything…

After all most of you are here reading this because I ran around my social networks and posted for you to come. In retrospect I realize that I must say… thank you time wasting social networks!

--Drew