It's just really been so cool to find friends from my distant and VERY distant past that I'd all but forgotten about. And yes, even a couple of family members who fell off the earth or so it seemed. This site actually makes a lot of sense to someone like me. Ahem, "someone like me": vagrant, homeless, wanderer, drifter, traveler, wayfarer. etc.
I would like to challenge anyone of you who finds the notion of a cyber social network to be cheesy and lame to offer me a simpler, more concise and straightforward means of keeping in touch with friends and family that span... 1... 2... 3... wait 4...NO, 5 CONTINENTS and I can't even count how many countries. My immediate family alone is situated in Seattle, San Francisco, Iceland, France, Switzerland, England, Australia, Zimbabwe. Tough to keep track!
So yeah, maybe if you never left the state you were born in. If you never had a friend with a different nationality than you. Perhaps I can see how very loser-ish you might be if your social life revolved around a website. But to the many who have left homes and family, by personal choice or perhaps by the actions of an evil dictatorial government [ie Robert Mugabe], this is just a means to share with friends and loved ones, a relationship that might have otherwise been lost.
If you don't make an effort to keep up with friends - and talking only when you need something doesn't count - then it all just fades away. It really does. But you know, I have also come to learn that in time it doesn't matter how good a friend you thought you had, or how well you thought you knew a person. The only ones who will be there for you through thick and thin all the way till the end is your family. Nobody else gives a real shit anyway.
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OUCH to that last comment with a bite. Poor me. I hardly have family.
So is facebook really all that great? I've been wary of signing up to yet another social network thingie. After all I have blogs, myspace, hi5, skype, yahoo msgr, email...
but since I am after all a webwhore I might as well.
From what I see small families seem to often be closer-knit than large. (like mine) So you're all good I think :)
Meh, facebook is what it is. I have all those others too... blogging can be mentally taxing, get tired of IMing (or can't catch anyone online), myspace is retarded and trashy, hi5 ... I just didn't like it.
I'm going with my blog and facebook - and myspace will sit in the backgroud for a little bit longer.
Well I love you anyway. And THANK YOU for the stuff you and Kristina sent. I am the envy of the moms with that awesome red bag, and I loved all the items. You guys are way too sweet.
You left out Iceland...!
what WHAT?? ImPOSSible I say! I have been falsely accused!! See to the untrained eye it might SEEM it was forgotten........ however now that you have been trained look again and behold! Believe me, this happened A LOT before I let people in on the secret. :)
LUUUUUCHI. You is welcome! Xtina was the picker-outer... she's got exquisite tastes. Glad it all worked out for you!
and besides... you guys never write. Hmmph :(
Whew! Glad that I married in. Now that I'm family, no worries of being pushed to the wayside.
Wait a minute... I did NOT marry in. Emma.... we're still family right???
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