Facebook = Timesuck

I caved. I’ve been resisting Facebook for a while. My friend, Karen, has been after me to join for at least a couple of months, and I just couldn’t see the point to it. I remember Twelve getting on MySpace, and thinking how ridiculous it was… why would he want to sit there and chat all evening with kids he just saw at school? I thought the same thing about Facebook, figuring that if I had something important enough to say there, I could just as easily say it here. Then my friend, Jenny, joined.

Let me just say now, for the record, that I am a terrible friend. I don’t do a good job of keeping in touch at all, and it doesn’t seem to matter if a friend lives in town or across the country. So as you can imagine, I’ve lost touch with a lot of people over the years, simply by not doing anything. When Jenny mentioned all the people she’d found on Facebook, it occurred to me that this might be a way I could reconnect with some of those friends, so I had her do a quick search to see if any of them had pages, and lo and behold, all of them do. That was it. That was all it took for me to completely and totally cave and create a profile.

I was really afraid that Facebook would be something I’d sign up for and never use… much like Twitter. It could still turn out that way, of course, but it’s different enough from what I do and share here that I may actually keep up with it. Of course, I’ve spent most of the afternoon trying to figure it out, changing my status, filling out my profile, and checking out my friends’ profiles – that’s 4 hours I’ll never get back. But, I’m hoping I can use Facebook as a tool to stay in touch with all the people I don’t see frequently, and who knows? Maybe I’ll make some new friends in the process. For someone as introverted as I am, this is ideal.

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