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[raubhimself]

1. You can ignore friend invites. I ignore most family and parents of friends. People bitch about how much information Facebook reveals, but then they add or accept every person that wants to be in their circle. Fuck that.

2. Hardly anyone contacts me via Facebook/MySpace anyways. Hell I think only one or two people wished me a happy birthday on there, and that's one of those things where people come out of the woodwork.

[fatguyaz]

happy birthday, dude.

[raubhimself]

it was like 2 months ago but thanks!

p.s. i didn't really care about the birthday thing, because i don't really care about people i haven't seen in years wishing me a happy birthday. it was just weird, is all.

[bisbee slim]

I feel like I'm reading a fortune cookie written by a pigeon

HA! this made me laugh hard for some reason.

[raubhimself]

But I'm not really old and cranky. Somebody bong me.

Holler at me.

[Jacki O.]

Holler!

[beefstew]

LinkedIn. That's the network I'm trying to work right now. Moving to the East Bay in January. Anyone have peeps that live in the Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda area? If you live in SF, "holler".

[eraser]

Hearing all of this makes me feel better about not being on Facebook. (Although, I nearly signed up yesterday, just so I could lock down a vanity url.)

MySpace was fun for a while, but it just got bogged down with so many ads and profiles that were seizure-inducing.

The tough thing about not being on Facebook is that I have tons of people that I've met through improv festivals across the country, and it's pretty clear that they're all keeping in touch and networking via Facebook. So, I keep flirting with the idea of joining just for that aspect.

Also, I keep flirting with the idea of signing up for Friendster just take things backwards.

Twitter is fun and easy and is a pretty awesome way to communicate, but it's starting to show signs of the pitfalls of other social networking sites - people friend harvesting, non-friends following (and the pressure to not just be able to say whatever you want to say), and the like.

I totally tweet too much, but that's why people can choose to unfollow, too.

[thebiggameover]

the network site i use is called "the bar". i dont log in alot now a days, but when i do its a good time, even if i dont remember what friends i added when i wake up in the morning.....

[glitterbot]

I have a strict "no family" policy on fb. If a fam member (other than my sister) tries to friend me i just tell them i strictly use fb to keep in touch with my east coast friends. And, as for the IM function, i have my settings set to always show me as offline.

[degrae]

I hate myspace now. I am all about Facebook and Twitter. Love them both. When people i dont care about try to talk to me on facebook I just totally ignore them. I was at the bridal expo and this chick from high school was there and i said hi and she acted like she didnt know me which REALLY pissed me off. I wanted to say.... "UMMMM We're facebook friends you fucking whore!!!" So i deleted her right when I got home and felt much better. Ahhh social networking.

so would this be anything like, living yer own life and only talking to people that are in front of you, as though you had a choice regarding which people you put effort in relating to? I'm all ol' fashioned an' shit, but if I ever am sitting at a meal with somebody that checks their celly I will jump across the table, choke 'em out, pay the check and vaporize. If you want to know what your network really acts like, turn off all power for one month and see who calls you after that.

[slu973]

I know a few people who are flat out addicted to facebook, twitter, etc. As in I have no idea what horrible things might happen if those sites went away, and what those people would do with themselves.

from the bossies forum:

Dinner at a restaurant last night, the 2 women next to us's conversation sounded like ".....BLAH BLAH FACEBOOK FACEBOOK. LOL BLAH BLAH OH MY GOD I KNOW....DOES SHE HAVE A FACEBOOK? I HAVE FACEBOOK ON MY PHONE BUT ITS NOT THE SAME AS USING FACEBOOK IN REAL LIFE..HIS FACEBOOK. DID YOU SEE THAT FACEBOOK? OH MY GOD I COULDN'T LOG ON TO MY FACEBOOK. MY FACEBOOK THIS AND HIS FACEBOOK THAT AND OUR FACE BOOK FACEBOOKS HEY WE HEARD YOU LIKE FACEBOOK SO WE PUT A FACE ON YOUR BOOK SO YOU CAN FACE YOUR BOOK WHEN YOU'RE ON FACEBOOK"

when they finally left my wife looked at me and said "thank god"

pretty much.

[sonofpatter]

In your face(book), biach!

[TaylorTrash]

I definitely have social networking anxiety. I am constantly checking everything via my phone. I can't deal with just driving in my car, I have to be driving and texting or checking things... otherwise I get really anxious. I know that is extremely dangerous. I am just being honest. And sometimes I am out with my friends and we are all sitting together but we're all totally not paying attention to each other. We are all on our phones laughing about someone's post or responding to a Tweet. It's weird. It's like sometimes I wonder what I would do if i went on a date where neither of us had our phone with us. What would we talk about? What would we do in the awkward silence? I post when I am in the bathroom, I post at band practice, I post in church. It has pretty much taken over.

This is me admitting I have a problem.