I'm extremely trepidacious about joining Facebook, and feel it's a little late in the game for me anyway. It was hard enough deciding to participate with Myspace, and even now I don't really use it for much. I guess I want to be sold on Facebook, so someone please tell me why I should or should not join.
This seems like a stupid thing to be worried about, doesn't it? Other stupid things I worry about:
-Having too many books I need to finish, even though three fourths of them are being read just for fun.
-When I buy a lot of food from the grocery store, I always worry it'll go bad before I have a chance to eat or cook it. I hate throwing away food, in fact I'm one of those annoying people who always takes home whatever they don't finish at a restaurant. Contrary to this, I buy bananas almost every time I go to the store, even though they always get thrown away when they inevitably go bad. I hate bananas.
I leave you with this totally unrelated anecdote:
A few years ago I was working at this big, important job in San Francisco. Late one afternoon someone noticed that a laptop was missing, but no one could figure out what happened to it...it just vanished. A couple suspicious days later building security emailed us this screen shot from their surveillance tape:
Notice the laptop-shaped bulge underneath that man's clothes? I used this photo as my screen saver for a while, because it made me laugh. The fact that this guy walked into an office, six floors up, took a laptop without being noticed, and walked out with it under his clothes...well I think he deserves the damn laptop.
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Facebook is good for showing all those bitches from highschool that your life is so much better than theirs. I mean, it's great for reconnecting with old friends!
That picture made me laugh. Thank you.
haaa..... facebook is for all that said they never would join myspace.....plain and simple.....the people that wait to long for anything new....i have a facebook and i really think its more messy than myspace...im always getting poked and challenged todo stupid mafia wars or buy someone...stupid shit........ uggg...
I found your blog through Distractable Jane and had a suggestion for your "I bought too many" bananas. Freeze them and then use them in a smoothie or to make banana bread. Delicious!
Good Lord, Dan is right. I just discovered this last month. And frozen bananas make a great dessert.
I was on Facebook for about a month. I would get emails saying "someone has sent you a Facebook message," then I had to log in to Facebook to read my message. I thought "Why don't they just send me a damn email?
i am still in limbo i/r/t joining facebook. it's like when all your friends go to a party that you know will be lame, but you're afraid that if you stay home, you will miss something Important. so you go, and it's exactly what you expected, but at least you can say you were there and you know what happened in excruciating detail.
isn't it standard practice to bring your leftovers home from a restaurant? unless you didn't enjoy your meal, i think it's a crime to leave food behind.
i hate it when my vegetables rot (and i buy a lot of 'em), so when it's getting near that time, i make a huge vat of veggie chili and freeze most of it. i'm also big on freezing bananas. in fact, i freeze pretty much everything. my freezer is jammed with bread and severed heads.
I like Facebook! It's like myspace, minus most of the whorishness. But, yeah, the whole "poking people" thing is stupid.
And I'm with you on having too many books to read. And I usually decide that the ones I'm reading for fun take priority over the stuff I have to read for classes.
i can't remember a time in the last ten years of my life where i didn't have the feeling that i had too many books to read. so, i guess that means i love that feeling, if i haven't figured out a way to rid myself of it, right?
facebook won me over a few months ago. mostly because it has cool word games you can play with friends to pass the time (yes, i'm a nerd like that), and because it's really super duper easy to make your settings private to anybody trying to look for you on there, and you can also easily set things up so that certain people can see some things ('limited profile') and others can see everything, and no one really knows which one they are getting except you. i don't know, it feels more secure - and as you mentioned, less whorish - than myspace. and again, the word games!
I promise never to poke you. but I might leave cute animal pictures. I'd say that's the main purpose of the internet.
Frozen bananas really are delicious. Sometimes, when I'm watching what I eat, I tell myself they taste like ice cream. They don't really taste like ice cream.
Facebook, I think, is like MySpace, only without quite as many creepy old men trolling for 15-year-olds.
Facebook is dumb! I refuse to be a part of it. It's just another thing to have to log into and keep up with and frankly, i'm tired!
Have you seen this? This is exactly why I won't do it!
http://www.idiotsofants.com/Clips.htm
(go to the "Facebook in real life sketch for BBC Three" movie).
...i just joined facebook..i am going to delete my account it sux...
out of curiosity (sincerely, i'm not taking the piss), why do you buy more food than you think you can use before it goes bad? instead of worrying about it, shouldn't you just buy less food?
also, why do you always buy bananas if you hate bananas?
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