bookin'

i tried to resist facebook. i really did. just like i tried to resist myspace (not like you could tell now, but i totally did). like, "i have my own domain! more than one! why would i need a myspace page?"

well.

i signed up for facebook a long time ago almost by accident. am i the only one who absentmindedly follows buttons until they've clicked their way into a private forum or public humiliation? i hope not.

anyway. facebook frightened me away at first with all the poking and notifications and it seemed so naked, it made me use my last name and it seemed like i couldn't even visit someone's page without my cousin's best friend and my highschool boyfriend being notified. "how am i going to stalk people? get me out of here!"

and then scrabulous lured me back inside, and oregon trail locked the door behind me (high school apple II e flashback! woot!). i've downloaded embarrassing apps like "what color is you aura?" and "what's 1950's pinup are you?" the kinds of things that you can't just do privately, you have to tell your friends you were dumb enough to take the test before it will give you your results. but you can't resist.

i added facebook mobile ("updates on my cell phone? why not?"). i'm not sure how it works. i thought i'd get notified when i've been poked, but so far not. oddly enough, the only thing that's happened so far is that yesterday i got three twitter-style status updates in a row from one person, all worded slightly differently. it left me wondering. "well, did you join a cult or didn't you?"

speaking of twitter, to those of you "following" me there, i am currently in my resistance phase to the crack of social networking sites. i'm sure i'll break down eventually and you'll begin to get twitterings from me in the middle of the day and night: "kateri is catastrophising about tumors. again." or- "kateri is digging for something she needs and will know what it is when she finds it." or- "kateri is very inspired by reading "Armageddon In Retrospect" but finds the images of war too disturbing to read at night". be forewarned.

Comments

[jesspond]

LOL...I tried to resist crackbook, too, but I couldn't. I was lured by the gossip aspect of it all..what ARE all those people I went to HS doing? Who's still partying and who's grown up?

FUN. :)

[Kateri]

jess, i think i might have eaten you on oregon trail. sorry about that! before i figured out how to hunt (it took an embarrassingly long time for me to figure out that i had to hit something more than once in order to kill it) i was eating people as soon as they got sick ;)

[Lilian]

Ha, how interesting. I don't much care for facebook, but recently friends started getting in touch, people congratulating on my defense and whatnot after I updated my status (I hardly ever do), and I think it's kinda fun. OH yeah, and I was quite SCARED to google my own name a couple of days ago and the FIRST result is facebook!! (it doesn't display my profile, but still!!!)

As a Brazilian, though, I use orkut more often -- people from my CHILDHOOD, from 25 years ago have found me there!! And I love it. It's much sleeker and cleaner than both myspace and facebook. But you'll only find Brazilians there... ;-)

Are we friends in facebook? I hope so ;-) (I think we are, but my brain is mushy from after-defense effects and I can't remember anything)