Okay, maybe I don’t get it.
I’m on Facebook. Who isn’t?
(Well, my mom isn’t, and I’d like to keep it that way.)
In any case, I don’t add people just to have a huge friends list. In addition to current folks I’m in touch with, I’ve added folks from my past. I have tried to catch up or at least touch base with those I haven’t seen in forever…to see where they are in life, what’s happened since high school/college/that job. Something. I kind of like that. I don’t expect my friendships will pick up right where they left off; some of these people I haven’t seen face-to-face in 20+ years.
So I don’t understand when someone from long long ago adds me, and yet never communicates with me either via The Wall or email or whatever. I initiate, but when there is no response, I wonder why I bothered. And why did they?
I guess that’s why there’s so many cool apps to play with on Facebook.
I’m not on facebook. I have no plans to be. The blog and twitter are more than enough internet addictions.
I do that; the friending of someone and then not following through. But frankly, looking at their profiles and seeing their status updates are enough to give me that little glimpse into their lives so if the day comes that something important happens, I’m ready.
One of the most efficient, yet sad uses of facebook came today. My next door neighbor growing up messaged me that his mother had passed away last night. If not for FB, I’d have never known since both his family and mine had moved away from the old neighborhood. He’s going to pass along details about the service as soon as they’re finalized.
I know what you mean. I have deleted a number of these “friends”..and a few have sent subsequent friend requests! I don’t get it….
Hmm…I think it’s time to trim back the list again…
Very true. I am on Facebook and was totally into it for a while, but now I am wondering why I keep reading the status updates of people I’m not sure I ever even spoke to way back when I was a freshman in high school. I do like to use it to keep in touch better with far-away family and college pals, though, and for the occasional old-boyfriend hunt. . .
I rarely update my Facebook status. There is such a strange cross-section of people who have “friended” me – from old work collegues to relatives to neighbors to old boyfriends. For some reason, I find Twitter a better fit for me – even though it’s public – only people who really want to follow me do so on Twitter.
What Jodifur said.
I am on Facebook, but I find most of the discussions I’m in are with people I already know through blogs and Twitter. I pop over to FB about once a week, just to see what I’m missing, but I typically don’t feel it’s much.
The word “friend” hung me up at first, now I’m less concerned about who follows me–though it took me months before I confirmed my IRL friend’s mom as a FB friend.