Facebook, again!

I really wonder about Facebook, and let's not talk about Twitter. I visit my page once a day and most of the things I read could fall into the category of interest on my part as if somebody announced, "I farted." In fact, "I farted" would generate more interest, since the consequences of ignoring this message could prove fatal.

My major concern is that people are spending time in relationships that are not face to face. I feel we are trying to replace quality with quantity. If I can get many quick hits from my squad of "friends", then this will make up for the lack of time I spend with the few very close people in my life.

Yes, I love to hear what is happening to people, but I would far rather have a phone call or a visit once a year or every six months than reading much of the mundane, everyday stuff that I see on Facebook. The way I see it, I don't have to look at the lives of others to realize that life can be pretty ordinary at times. I have a life of my own to do that. Anyway, I would rather spend my time working on turning the ordinary into the extraordinary than reading information that has little impact on my life.

I often wonder if people use Facebook and Twitter so they can appear to be part of the cybercrowd. They will feel that they are being left behind technologically and feel like a dinosaur in today's world, somehow not hip and with it. There seems to be a pressure to be friends with the world.

I will still check in, though, to my Facebook account now and again. However, if somebody wants to go out for coffee or dinner and spend a few hours of quality time discussing face to face, looking into each other's eyes instead of a computer screen, let me know.