FB

Meaning Facebook.

Wonderful Guy signed up first and was having a good time being in touch with family and friends, current and old.

I ignored it for a while. I had a lot going on, a lot of ways I keep up with people, and wasn’t sure I needed ‘one more thing.’ Then I thought I would try it out surreptitiously. Well, nothing is done on the QT on FB once someone’s name is used. I was just filling in info, said who I was married to, and suddenly, Wonderful Guy, ever diligently working at his computer (I thought), says…’are you signing up on FB?’

So much for being sneaky.

I have read other’s (blogger types) take on the experience, and it hasn’t been all positive. I (on the other hand) have found it to be mostly fun, pretty entertaining, and very interesting.

I have about 40 friends. Really not very many, seeing as how most of those I am related to! I have never had the ‘popular’ claim to fame. It’s an easy way for the fam to keep up with each other without having to go the excruciating effort of writing a whole, long email. (gasp. Lazy much?) Not really. We have some fun, interactive exchanges back and forth…electronic snappy repartee, as it were. My 13 year old nephews are my friends (I think maybe their parents made them), and Wisest Sister is my…wisest…friend.

I don’t do a lot of the apps. I do have some flair, specifically I have an ‘I love Chemistry’, some iris, something about knitting, and a Starship Enterprise, to name a few.

Yes, I am a dork.

I have found a few friends from the tiny little college I went to in central OK. And that has been priceless. A few of the fellows that grew up on the same street in our little town of Greensburg have also ’friended’ me, which has been real fun. A former co-worker and an old neighbor from back in the day…all good stuff.

And exactly no one from my high school. Well, except Dearest Sister, and another that went to the same college. I don’t count them as there are other and different connections. I am thinking that is sort of a relief. About as much of a relief as the X not having found FB. Yet.

What I find interesting is seeing how others work the book. Some of my college friends (a pastor and a professor) have lots of friends…600+! I am sure it has to do with their work, but geez o peez! I don’t believe that I know that many people! Some of my friends are on every time I log on. Some send me ‘gifts’ from their favorite apps, no matter how often I don’t accept them. I have discovered that some will use any and every opportunity to express their opinions, which is nice when I agree with them, and obnoxious when I don’t. (but that is my stuff.) I think it is funny that so many of us ‘geezer-types’ are logging on, and I am wondering where the really cool kids are going now, because surely FB can’t be that cool anymore with all of us there. And some join, friend me, and then disappear into the ether, never to be heard from again. I am sure they are off collecting more friends.

I have had fun with it, and look at it as another avenue of communicating and building relationships.

For me, it’s not what the popular kids are doing. Can’t be.

Heck. I’m doing it!