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I. Just. Don’t. Get. It.
By hissychick | April 15, 2008
I am sitting here trying and failing to get my inbox under control. Aside from the usual several zillion forwarded emails (you people already know how much i hate that shit) there are several invites from friends, both real life and inside the ‘puter, to join Facebook.
FUCK OFF!!! Thanks, but no thanks.
Privacy issues aside, I just can’t come at these new fangled social networking doohickeys on the www. I don’t want to go online and then immediately get swamped by the very non exciting fact that sixteen of my ‘friends’ are online at the same time, and that seven of them have updated their wall so come on please, tell me again hissy what you think of some minor non issue in my non exciting life. Right. this. very. instant. Maybe I’m getting old but I just don’t see the point in wasting my time poking and being poked, a feature of Facebook that even its creators admit does not serve a specific purpose.
Good christ folks, as it is I try to avoid too awkward chit chats and small talk in real life, so what makes you think I’d prefer to spend my days on the internets dealing with this kind of vacuous nonsense?
Blogging is different. What I like about blogs is that you as a reader choose which blogs to read and when and how often to check in on the subject of your choice. The writers in turn choose what and how much they are willing to share with you about themselves. There is also room for- shock! horror!- writing. Skilful prose, poetry and the like, and not just a few lines of inane shite from someone who needs to get a life (or at least utilise spell check before they publish).
And don’t even get me started on Twitter.
Then there is the temptation of searching for people that should stay firmly where they belong- in the past. I don’t want to be tempted to find out what mr hissychick’s first wife looks like nor do I need to know what the ex boyfriend who starred in a notoriously bad reality TV show is up to nowadays.
And so I will never, ever sign up to Facebook.
If you’d like to fill me in on what has been happening since we last talked/wrote then please…wait for it…send me an email. Or update your blog. You can even attach pictures. And then I will read your message and respond at my leisure, actually giving some thought to my response. Who’d have thought?
Stopping before I have a stroke.
Topics: hissyfit |
Well….Facebook indeed does not serve much purpose. I am on the bandwagon though….only for the fact that I am super duper free at work (sometimes) and it is the only place I can play online scrabble for free!:)
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Posted by: Ann on April 15th, 2008 at 11:21 pmGood for you, girl.
Me not on Facebook either, though a few friends have been bugging me to get there.
Honestly I don’t have time either. Just blogging and blog hopping can take up my whole night sometimes and ThaT is the kind of night life for me, and life online too.
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I have gotten so many “pokes” ( god that sounds really bad doesn’t it) that the virtual pokes have created IRL bruises. They are starting to disappear though perhaps they realise “I dont want to know you really!’ Since I refuse to poke back!!!
But the Scrabble isn’t bad
Posted by: Simone on April 17th, 2008 at 7:34 amI can live with people playing scrabble. The poking would just lead to tears for mr hissychick as i am fairly certain i would do an elvis to the computer. (ok maybe not an elvis, but damage of some description)….
Posted by: hissychick on April 17th, 2008 at 11:45 amPOKE!! - let that sustain you.
(I just couldn’t resist)
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