facebook loses one of 19,951,900 faces.
I was wondering which of my friends would write the first Dear John letter to facebook. Today, I wonder no more.
I received the following in a mass e-mail from an good friend. It is posted below with his permission — though I changed his name — and deleted the last line of his email for, well, content the general public needn’t be privy to.
From: ***********
Subject: Facebook
Date: November 7, 2008 8:43:26 PM EST
To: Undisclosed recipients: ;
Friends, neighbors and relatives:
I’ve found Facebook to be a strange and wonderful thing.
Strange because people I hardly remember, know or like have made contact with me through the site and asked to be my friend.
Wonderful because it’s a great way to stay in contact with people I actually consider friends.
So, I am going to disengage from Facebook as [NAME] and re-engage at a later time under a less common name (for me). Ha ha
If you see an invite from someone you’ve never heard of in the future, it might be me, so don’t ignore it.
Until then, you have my email for any miscellaneous statuses or rants.
[last part deleted for content]
So how are you feeling about facebook? Like it? Hate it? Lukewarm? Have you defriended someone? Feel free to share.
Hope you’re well, and thanks for stopping in.
Much to the chagrin of many around me, I still have not joined Facebook. I’ve asked several to explain to me why I would want to join. Usually I just get a list of the cool features Facebook offers rather than how it might better my life.
That’s not to say I can’t see some appeal. I have no problem with the existence of Facebook. I’m not anti-Facebook. Other people can do it and I in no way look down on them. I just don’t think it’s something I’m interested in. Even without Facebook, I’m connected to the people I want to be connected with any meaningful way. And there’s enough drama in my real life relationships that I don’t need to deal with the added drama that could exist in cyber-relationships.
And to not accept or unfriend someone on Facebook that you might see every day at work or church (or wherever)…that seems to me like it’s asking for trouble in the real world. I’d just rather not have an account and not even worry about committing a social networking faux pas that could spill over into my face-to-face interactions.