Some of my friends keep jabbing at me, trying to persuade me to sign up with Facebook. My brothers have succumbed to it now too. One invited me, and I shot back an email asking him to give me 2 good reasons why I should do it. He answered that he's still trying to decide why he joined. Which convinced me even more that I don't need it.
I already spend a lot of time online, and I don't need any more reason to do so. Xanga keeps me in touch with some friends, and is manageable for my techie-challenged brain. Google Reader gives me all the blogs I need. Wordpress gives me another venue to blog. Why do I want FB? Besides, opting out of what 'everyone else' is doing has been sort of a way of life for me, and it would be out of character to change now. Someone may yet come up with some persuasive reason to sway me. I'm not saying NEVER, but I'm saying that the day I join Facebook will be an amazing day.
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I did sign up simply because there are some folks I'd never hear from or see their pictures otherwise.
But I make it a matter of principle to not do any quizzes or other fillers. That's my cause.
I find enough to say without help.
I joined without having a clue of how it worked and what it was like. I love it. Not for it's depth in what I read but as a way to keep up with friends I would NEVER hear from or rarely see. I don't think you can try to equal blogs and facebook as I think they serve 2 different purposes. There are some of my "friends" who add their blogs to facebook, which is great. My hubby asks why I want to hear what people are doing, thinking, eating, etc... but I say it's better than not having any clue of where they are and what their life consists of.
Oh, and I would never see pictures and rarely hear from Nat and Ruth, but since they joined, I just might get the chance. :)
That's pretty much why I didn't join...Gabriel says I spend enough time online, anyway. Except it does make me feel like, as Dorcas Smucker wrote, everyone at school has not only gone inside for recess, but left on a field trip to the zoo while I was out playing on the swings.
I'm with you. I decided that is one thing I just don't have to do. My life is busy enough without having to keep in touch with every person I've ever met.
I ignored my Facebook page for months and months, then suddenly many people were signing up and somehow along the way I got sucked in. Facebook is great for seeing what people are up to, BUT if you have computer-related work to do, Facebook is a very tempting distraction because there is a constant incoming stream of information.
Which is why I have taken a Facebook fast this week...which is why I am now active again on Xanga. Sigh. Maybe I'll have to do a complete Internet fast.
I have one. I rarely go there. It has allowed me to connect with some lost friends amd that I like. HOWEVER, I am super annoyed by the meaningless drivel that constitutes most "update"s. Sends me back to blogging everytime...
You are reading "City of Joy" Good. Don't know when I've heard anyone say they are reading it. I did some years ago and it made an indelible impression on me.
Facebook - I resisted for quite a while too but now.....
You go, girl! You already know that I'm right there with you, fighting for the right to be a nonconformist. Here are a few good reasons to not join;
1. It wastes great amounts of time.
2. It is addicting.
3. Most of the constant flow of communication is extremely shallow.
4. Everybody has their nose in everybody's business. (Do you really want three hundred forty-five people to know that now you're going swimming, now you're back from swimming, and now you're suffering sunburn?? Do you really want all those same people to know where you're eating dinner tonight, before you've even had the chance to do it?)
5. As online social networking continues to explode, most people pray and study less and less. God is getting cheated out of the time that He wants with us.
6. Many of the people who live on those sites allow their real-life relationships to suffer because of it.
7. The desperate inner motivations of loneliness and desiring to be known are not "fixed" in cyberspace.
Since 7 is a perfect number, I'll stop there. But if you need more reinforcement, just let me know and I'll add to the list.
I can see us now, dressed out in battle clothes, stoically marching side-by-side to the beat of a different drummer. 