I don’t always check my Facebook page daily… now that I have a blackberry I do get notices about posts or messages that people leave me… or when I comment on something and then someone else comments on the same statement I get a notice about it… my time using the site is typically fairly brief…

Right now… I have 127 “friends” on Facebook - some people have over a thousand… of those 127 people I have not really taken the time to go to their “page” to look at all of their pictures or to really see what is going on their lives… that may be a little rude of me but I just don’t really have the time…

I get friend requests from random people some people who think they may have gone to high school with me in Blacksburg… if you don’t remember whether we went to high school then we weren’t friends then… so why would we be “Facebook friends” now?

I really take a long time to decide whether I am going to accept someone as a friend or ignore them… the ignore part seems rude but I don’t easily cave to the pressure of accepting the friend request because to me then you have allowed someone into your little “cyber-life” that is filled with your day to day activities and pictures…

There are some people who will try to “friend” you more than once… I would not be offended if someone “ignored” my request… but apparently some people get really sensitive about it… if we never talk in real life - or we don’t really know each other… why would you be so offended that I don’t have time or interest in talking to you in “made up computer world”... I mean what is the big deal? 

Then there are the “de-frienders”  which again does not even phase me… I typically will notice that I haven’t seen an update from someone in a while - check my friend list and they are no longer a part of it… that has happened to be several times…

So what the heck am I doing on Facebook in the first place?  I honestly don’t know :)