social traffic jams and Facebook Culture
The approaching Holiday Season is beginning to feel like a social traffic jam for the first time since before COVID.
This Saturday isn't even technically within the Holiday Season yet, but I've been invited to more events than I could accept, plus I want to go to the monthly spanking party. T and I have a social traffic jam on the first weekend in December also, when DavidF is visiting and T is torn between NY and DC due to his work holiday party.
My extended family is so jammed up already we couldn't schedule our Bug Family Christmas gathering until January 7th.
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A friend who I chat with frequently and who I invited to my several recent Game Days is having a birthday party on Saturday evening. I didn't learn about this party until Wednesday, when T asked me whether I wanted to go with him.
I was puzzled why I didn't receive a direct invitation via text, when I text with this person frequently. T also asked B to go along, and so last night I asked B, "You and I have both socialized with this birthday guy in person recently, why didn't he reach out to us directly with an invitation?"
B replied, "It's probably a Facebook invitation, and we aren't on Facebook."
Oh, right. So we get the late second-hand invitation from T, who is still on Facebook.
Don't act like a Facebook invite is enough, people. We aren't all on Facebook. There can be friendships and social lives outside of Facebook.
This Saturday isn't even technically within the Holiday Season yet, but I've been invited to more events than I could accept, plus I want to go to the monthly spanking party. T and I have a social traffic jam on the first weekend in December also, when DavidF is visiting and T is torn between NY and DC due to his work holiday party.
My extended family is so jammed up already we couldn't schedule our Bug Family Christmas gathering until January 7th.
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A friend who I chat with frequently and who I invited to my several recent Game Days is having a birthday party on Saturday evening. I didn't learn about this party until Wednesday, when T asked me whether I wanted to go with him.
I was puzzled why I didn't receive a direct invitation via text, when I text with this person frequently. T also asked B to go along, and so last night I asked B, "You and I have both socialized with this birthday guy in person recently, why didn't he reach out to us directly with an invitation?"
B replied, "It's probably a Facebook invitation, and we aren't on Facebook."
Oh, right. So we get the late second-hand invitation from T, who is still on Facebook.
Don't act like a Facebook invite is enough, people. We aren't all on Facebook. There can be friendships and social lives outside of Facebook.