Face Booking It

I created a Face Book acount 5-6 months ago as I wanted to see some pictures from a friend, and I couldn't without being a member. In my first post there, I explained what I was doing, and I would be doing all my posting on my blog.

Thursday I got on to my FB account for only the second time and found that I had friend invites from 5 people (all of them months old). All were from family members and friends, so I accepted, finally.

And before you ask, no, I didn't get the emails telling me of the friend requests. Why? Because I gave them another email account that is only used by that - something I didn't think I ever needed to monitor. So now I guess I have to monitor that one too - 3 email accounts I have to keep up with. Fortunately my phone has several different email programs; I didn't like either of the 2 that came with it, so downloaded K-9 Mail, which is what I use for my normal, every day, email (you can get it thru the Android Marketplace too). I don't really have to monitor the blog email, so that is done thru the desktop anyway. I set up one of the crappy mail apps that came with the phone for the FB mail account so I don't miss anything important.

So, now I guess I need to post to FB every once in a while. Somehow I just don't get their layout at all. I had one conversation from my SIL (she asked me a question) and I couldn't for the life of me find it on the site. I finally had to respond from the email I got - and FB is the poplular method of communication why? Blogs seem so much more user friendly and intuitive.

Guess I'm just showing how flexible I am not.

Comments

[Ruth]

It gets worse as it goes, and once everyone has this "timeline" thing its REALLY going to suck. I stick with it because its the only real contact I have with a bunch of people from highschool and college that I wouldn't otherwise have any contact with. But they are definetly in the "Fancier is better" family and I hate it.

[Cop Car]

"They" would have to bribe me heavily to get me to go back to FaceBook. I hadn't realized how much time it sucked out of my day until I dropped out. Of course, the reason I was on in the first place was to keep track of wide-spread volunteer folks and my brother's granddaughters. The reason I dropped out was a privacy thing - what with all the changes that were upcoming at the time. Good luck!