If I divorce Facebook, do I get custody of Twitter?

[kjpzak]

Social networking is making me feel damn old. And since internally, I like to maintain an age of 12, I'm finding this incredibly frustrating. I have kids. One of them is on the verge of teenagerdom. The grey hair I have, the stuff that makes my colorist scratch her head and tell me, "Katy, you are one of my challenge clients!", I earn honestly

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[dianne_37]

Well, you're better at it than I am. I don't even Facebook ... and I used that word as a verb! Oi! I check lj once every four days or so. I don't post anymore on lj 'cause there's something depressing about no replies, I have no idea why I would care about such things so to stop analyzing that I just stopped posting. I feel much better now LOL

[kjpzak]

Hello Dianne! Facebook is a blessing and a curse, I think. I'm not a letter writer or a phone caller so being able to stay in touch with people I wouldn't normally is kind of nice. My childhood was spent moving so I developed this really bad habit of cutting my losses and moving on because there wasn't much of a choice to do anything but that. In return, I'm horrible with names and faces and remembering where I met someone or why I know them. And growing up how I did, trying to keep in touch with friends I moved away from was hard work when everytime I turned around, I was having to make new friends, plus it was a painful reminder of what I left behind. So, Facebook lets me reconnect and that is nice. The fact I have to think so darn hard about it now just makes me grumpy. And even I have to laugh about that. No one is making me Facebook (look, I used it as a verb, too

[crumplehornedki]

I too miss the e-mails, I hate having to scroll down looking for threads that I have left comments on - most frustrating!

But Facebook is great for staying in touch, when you move around in the military so much you make great friends and then leave so it's lovely to be able to keep up with minimal effort - now that we are ex-military my list of contacts won't grow so fast lol

[kjpzak]

Yes! I loved those emails! Massive club to the head - just what I needed! And I won't give FB up because it has linked me back to so many people I have been so bad about keeping in touch with. There is something comforting in knowing that the people you thought were good friends 20 years ago are still good friends. :)

[bowtrunckle]

Ditto, ditto, ditto, ditto to pretty much everything you said. I suck at FB, at LJ, and I don't even pretend to try to have anything else like Twitter or whatever Tumblr is. Despite the fact I like to see/hear what my friends are up to and don't mind even the most mundane of posts, somehow that rule doesn't apply to me. I feel like nobody's interested in what I ate for breakfast including myself (and, yes, that's how exciting my life is).

Also, I might've clicked on one of those Crossfit Videos and been like, "Oh, that's the place where they carry weights and stuff around outside the yummy smelling warehouse ... good to know." :)

BTW, a west coast friend was visiting us this week and her and I went out for coffee about 3 times, making me realize that I haven't done that since we moved. I miss Seattle and having coffee with friends. *hugs* At least FB helps me remember what all my west coast friends look like.