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rhythmaningAs well as LJ, I also have a page on Facebook – as you may remember, since I have posted before about how Facebook doesn’t actually make much sense to me – I get a lot of value from LJ, and derive hardly any from Facebook. Clearly, a lot of people do get a lot from it (not least the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is now a multi-millionaire).
A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.
I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
franki_ecap!).
I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).
I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)
I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).
A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.
I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by
franki_ecap!).I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).
I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)
I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).