JHO's Inaugural Post - Facebook Musings

Grrrrr. Blogging for the first time is harder than it looks. Not like wasting time. Wasting time is much easier.

If you can’t tell after reading this post, I’m a little slow on "what’s cool" online. Three months ago I discovered Facebook – which is cool because a crack addiction can be rather costly...or so I’ve heard. And much like crack, it’s an addictive, great way to waste large amounts of time at home and at work (and even on your cell phone!) on something that provides little, if nothing in return. As if I didn’t have enough happening in my life, managing my Facebook profile has basically become a second job. God knows it takes a lot of time administering my personal profile, strategically granting profile access to some but not others (losers – you know who you are), figuring out what to tell people "JHO is...." on any given day, and getting over the unparalleled rush I get from hitting the “Reject” friend request button (I think they now call it “Ignore” to soften the blow).

On a more positive note, Facebook has however filled the large empty void in my life of wondering who from my high school got fat (...really fat), who out of my friends posted the most boring pictures of things I don’t care about,  and who I make way more money than. I also thoroughly enjoy some of the terminology associated with Facebook – like the “poke” function, for instance. I wish I had a picture to support this post (oh wait, i do - on my Facebook profile) capturing the poor, unsuspecting elderly couple’s facial expressions sitting next to me during my recent vacation in Whistler, after I had went on for some time describing in great detail all the people "I poked”, “should poke”, “want to poke” or “poked me” that day on Facebook. Generation gaps apparently make for good times.

 As a sidebar, if you also read Chris' blog on this site you may have noticed he also blogged about Facebook yesterday - that's the last time this amateur blogger shares her posting ideas with the so-called "team".   

-- JHO