Aberrant Prose

Facebook bitten

Just a few days after writing my last blog I became a facebook user (thanks to Kathy). This may well be why I am not blogging as often now. That and my continuing battle with piriformis syndrome. It is hard for me to write a lot when I can’t sit at my computer for very long.

I admit I am quite addicted to facebook. It’s easy to get drawn into it between activities. While I am waiting for a job to print, or a file to upload, an email to be answered, a phone call to be returned, I jump over to facebook to read what people have just posted and for entertainment.

When I first joined I didn’t expect I would get into or be interested in all the games and questionnaires associated with facebook. Now I am sending Easter eggs, cultivating a farm, discovering Olivia is the name I should have been given, Redding is the town where I ought to live (unless I move out of state then it is Seattle), the breed of dog that best describes me is a Cattle Dog (!), and my real age is 46.

Of course what I like about facebook is how little writing is required, just snippets to share what is going on in my life.

Better yet I enjoy seeing the photos people post and discovering what is going on in their lives. I found out a niece of mine has a dozen horses, another niece is now a doctor, yet another niece just got a new puppy, my sister graduated from Clatsop Community College, a first cousin of mine now has a new job and her husband went skydiving on his birthday.

Another nice aspect of facebook is there is no wading through a lot of spam associated with email. Plus attachments don’t bog down incoming email. Messages, photos and videos can be shared by posting them directly on facebook. And sharing with lots of people doesn’t mean sending lots of emails (good for not bogging down the internet especially when there are attachments involved). Best of all people respond! Often when I email people they don’t (most likely because my email gets blocked by a spam filter).

After a month and a half I am still enjoying the facebook connection, which leads me to wonder: Have I now moved from blogging to facebooking? And what’s next? Twittering?

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