Update on Facebook,
I now have 50 friends which is in my mind fairly decent for 1 week. The pressure to post photographs is driving me to distraction. I inwardly roll my eyes when people say "finally" you are on.
Most interesting development. One of my long time friends saw me and said, oh I heard you were on Facebook, I haven't been on mine in a while. I said, I am trying it out, look me up when you get back on. 5 days later her husband told me that she was very hurt that I had not friend requested her yet.
This brings me to a very interesting point. Back in middle school/junior high, it was all about being invited, the more people who invited you to parties the cooler you were. It had a very similar ring. This friend of mine clearly knew I was on Facebook and clearly looked enough to be aware that I had not friended her, but did not take the effort to click the button and friend me. Instead she was hurt that I had not friended her. So is there some kind of social status that goes along with being asked versus doing the asking? Does it really matter? Is there some kind of track record that say's you asked 24 people to be your friend but only 13 people requested your friendship? Does that ratio somehow make you less cool?
It was frustrating and confusing and definitely one more black mark on the Facebook con list. Well I am almost 1/3 of the way in to my experiment and my initial feelings are still the same.
The only redeeming quality is that I was able to see a new family member that I would have waited to see for 6 months. Able to tell his parents what a beautiful baby they had.
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