Why I Like Facebook

So, I am sure you are on Facebook. Please don’t pretend you aren’t. You know how it works as well as I do. I have nearly 400 friends and I know each and everyone of them with the slight exception of two) in person.

The site has been making several structural changes recently and its causing an uproar. I myself have played fast and loose with threats to leave if they keep altering things making it easier and easier to “stalk” people. However, while jogging today, I was really thinking about the possability of my leaving the site. And I don’t see it happening.

This is why. Facebook gives mea chance to share in all those little pointless comments, jokes, observations and day to day-ities with 400 of my closest friends. I know that sounds silly. Who can have 400 close friends? But the reality, for me anyway, is that I have shared the pointless comments, jokes, observations and day to day-ities in REAL LIFE with all but two people I am friends with on Facebook. My friends fall into groups pertaining to diffrent time periods of my life…diffrent incarnations of the same me…but they were…each and every one…horribly important and present in my life at some point in my past or present.

Facebook, allows that to continue…to restart in many cases without the pressure to be informative that e-mail, letters and phone calls usually present. I mean how many of us see our real wolrd friends and talk about serious or life altering events every time? No one right? That would be INTENSE. No…instead we share a lot of one liners and joke around and refrence silly commonalities. Facebook allows for that. It allows for the heavy stuff to….

That’s why I like Facebook….it keeps me connected to the unimportant things pertaining to the important people in my life.