Addicted to Facebook

I've not really been a fan of social media. I like some things, but have never really gotten into the hype. I enjoy posting on YouTube and watching what others post, but I don't comment much and I don't go out of my way to make friends there. Perhaps I should, it might make the service that much more entertaining, but I've not really done it. I tweet some, but not much, I've only got 29 friends on my list. I never got into MySpace and didn't sign up for FaceBook, because I thought it would be just like MySpace, and I didn't care.

Well, I finally signed up on FaceBook because of peer pressure. I signed up three days ago and immediately found a lot of family on there, including my mother and several cousins. I also found some people I've gone to school with, worked with, and others I volunteer with. I then found some people from High School who I've not seen since High School. But, I thought "hey, that's cool. I'll chat with them once or twice and then we will loose connection again." I'm not particularly good at keeping up the connections. I'd like to be, but I guess I'm just too caught up in my own affairs to spend much time thinking about yours. I'm a little selfish, what can I say. One of my biggest faults and they thing I like least about myself, but hey, it's just part of who I am.

They make it easy to keep up by having a list of posts by others for me to read. I don't have to go to my friends sites to keep up with them, there is stuff posted right there for me to read and respond to. And to top it off, after less than three whole days I've already connected with 46 people. The problem with that though is that now there is so much stuff people doing, that I can't keep up. And all the games they are playing!

I have started to play some games on the site. When you play the games, your friends in the games can help you. When you have neighbors in FishVille, they can stop by your tank and clean it for you, or adjust the temperature. You can look at their tanks, send them gifts. It makes keeping in touch very fun, albeit superficial.

I still prefer the personal touch of face to face interactions, but FaceBook makes me respect social media a lot more. I know, I'm a geek, I'm supposed to really be into these geeky things. Maybe this will open some doors for me and make me an even bigger geek. :)