LOL. I thought Facebook would help me reconnect with long last friends. Guess what? Those friends are lost for a reason - they don't care about me and I don't care about them . . . otherwise, they wouldn't be lost.
My existing friends found me on Facebook and we connected. Great.
Still no lost friends found me and I spent very little time looking for them. The couple I found - old girlfriends - just didn't seem appropriate to contact. . . what would be my opening line?
"I heard your husband has put on 95 lbs since you married him." Or, "So, don't you wish you hadn't dumped me now?" Or worse, "How'd you like to get together for coffee and chat?" Seriously now . . .
At least when I blog, I know my three friends will stop by every few days or so. And blogging has the benefit of me not boring my family with my rants . . .and now I am ranting on your blog.
Brent Logan
· 2 years ago
Yup, just ignored another "notification" on Facebook today. I'm not a good friend...
And I wouldn't count on people visiting a blog, either. You either do this stuff for yourself, or not at all. But that's another post...
John Kewley
· 2 years ago
I don't get Facebook either. After waiting until NOW to dip my toe in - and I'm an ad guy, for Gawd's sake, I'm supposed to be a networker extraordinaire - I finally signed up, spent a grand total of nine minutes as a Facebooker, and deleted my account. It was this: the word 'friend' is a very powerful word. I realized almost immediately - it took eight minutes, plus another minute for the cancellation - that 93% (maybe 99%) of the people in my address book are not really my 'friends'...
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My existing friends found me on Facebook and we connected. Great.
Still no lost friends found me and I spent very little time looking for them. The couple I found - old girlfriends - just didn't seem appropriate to contact. . . what would be my opening line?
"I heard your husband has put on 95 lbs since you married him." Or, "So, don't you wish you hadn't dumped me now?" Or worse, "How'd you like to get together for coffee and chat?" Seriously now . . .
At least when I blog, I know my three friends will stop by every few days or so. And blogging has the benefit of me not boring my family with my rants . . .and now I am ranting on your blog.
And I wouldn't count on people visiting a blog, either. You either do this stuff for yourself, or not at all. But that's another post...
So, do you have a LinkedIn account with lots of "contacts" instead? ;-)