I've got a lot of criticisms of Facebook, mainly that some 20 something is making millions while I slave away doing the same stuff for under a 100k, but one thing Facebook does have down is the ease of use to network and add friends based on your friend's connections. This is causing some weirdity for me.
First, my family starts hopping on Facebook. I was both impressed and horrified that my Mom does Facebook. Next a few of my close friends tracked me down and added me as a friend...then the next thing I know through them I'm getting adds from people I went to High School with that well I wasn't very close with. Now I'm kinda not liking Facebook so much.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I wish ill will on folks from my High School. Some of them it has been great to connect with...but others...not that I wish them ill will or anything, but they maybe aren't the first choice of people I would like to have back into my life, even on a facebook scale.. They represented to me a whole social higherarchy that I both hated in high school and was completely disillusioned by in college. For me, high school pretty much sucked. I was athletic enough to be on the foot ball team, I was social enough so that if I showed up at a party no one looked at me funny, I had a few good friends, but in general I was miserable during that time. I pretty much did my time and got out, and I didn't really look back.
I think I thought I was more miserable in college, but looking back maybe I wasn't, I just had matured enough so I could understand that I wasn't happy, and got vocal and emo about it. Then my next phase of evolution was to actually start doing things about being unhappy, hate to say that but that came in baby steps that didn't start happening till my late 20ies and have progressed slowly since then. But I digress...
So, do I want people who I haven't seen in 15+ years tracking my comments, my photos, who my other friends are? Well, not really. How do I politely say...nothing personal, but no thanks?
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