Riding the Horse, then Getting Off
I've been saving this picture for just the right blog entry, and this is it!
I just got off the phone with an old friend who wishes to remain anonymous. We’ll call her “Steph G.” No, that’s too obvious. How about “S. Gibson”? Yes, that’s better.
Anyway, she’s got the Facebook monkey on her back and wants to quit and return to blogging. She’s very good at blogging, and she told me today that she feels happy when she blogs instead of waiting around for comments on those “stupid Facebook status updates.” I couldn’t agree with her more. At one point I had quit Facebook all together when another friend told me they had changed it. So I re-activated my account to find that nothing had changed, and like MySpace, which I ditched last year, Facebook is like going to a party with 195 of the shallowest people you know.
So, “S”, here is your impetus. Get off the Facebook horse, get on your blog, and copy and paste us your favorite song lyrics! Go, “S”, go!
Themocracy
I want to start a social networking site for literary types, and call it “Bookface”.
Just today I told a co-worker that it would be a mistake to underestimate the potential popularity of buttface.com.
I want to start a social networking *place* (not a site), where people interact face-to-face, tell stories and jokes, share photos and news bites, and give each other reassuring pats on the back. I’ll call it “town” or “neighborhood.”
Just an idea.
Nicole,
That is the best idea ever ever ever!!! You must! Someone must! I’m only a wannabe literary type but I love that idea. I also know lots of my facebook friends who would really dig it too. Bookface! That’s great.
So who do you friend on facebook? Do your facebook friends drink cheap wine on the rocks or what? The heart and zoo sending types on fb are annoying and I really don’t mean to sound uppity since I am way more downity than uppity. But almost all of my fb friends are very intelligent and high quality people who don’t spam my page with zoo friends and hearts. I guess it’s a lot like the real world way of selecting friends. I sent you a friend referral for a great guy named Paul Zuckerman. He’s an attorney for the NY state insurance office. His photography is different than yours because it’s his, but man it’s really great work. I really wish you would take a looksy. I’m not a snob (I would be if only I had something to be snobby about–so be on alert), but even though I am always the dingiest chica in the crowd, I just can’t hang with zoo friend types for the most part. Although there are always exceptions.
I’m not saying that my Facebook friends are shallow (though, of course, some of them are), but merely that the Facebook experience is shallow.