I recently received a very interesting email from an old co-worker. He wanted to know what he had done to offend me. Wha?! He said that on Facebook, he didn't have access to my wall or pictures or notes or anything. The poor guy was genuinely distressed! Oh, my.
Until I decided to leave Seattle and drift, I avoided social networking like the plague. I'd rather hear from you in person. Preferably over a beer. That you bought. Ahem. But from the road, social networking is simply the best option for staying in touch with folks. So I caved and joined. And it was fun.
But then co-workers started friending me. Aunts and cousins, too. You know the drill. I started worrying about offending someone with an offhand remark, or getting in a tussle with some loved one about politics or religion. It's easy to offend, out there on the intar-webs. So I dialed my privacy settings up to 11 and (oh, the shame!) put my friends in bins: friend, friend, family, friend, co-worker, etc.
But some co-workers are friends. Family, too. Why do social networking sites encourage us to bin our friends like that? And in case you missed the irony: by trying to avoid offending people, some people got offended!
So, f*%$!k all that. (Apologies if that offended you.) I'm done with putting my friends in bins. Friends are friends, and that's that.
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It's a lot easier being a cat in Facebook. Cats don't get offended unless you steal our tuna.
I doubt cats have very rich interactions with humans on Facebook. Your owner was just saying to me how she is not as good as she used to be at keeping up with people. Maybe if she joined Facebook... <g>
The Cat expresses righteous indignation at the downgraded rating of interaction on Facebook. Which belies the previous statement.
Facebook is 50% Lurkers/Stalkers, 20% thumb action, 20% addicts, and 10% stuffed animalia and a variety of pets.
I wonder which category I fall into.
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