Facebook Slam

I've only been unfriended once on Facebook that I was aware of.  I don't do many Facebook updates on a day to day basis.  It's mostly reserved for significant updates like vacations, good news, etc.  Not the inane, "I just ate breakfast" updates.  Unfortunately, it happened again today or some time in the past few days.  How did I find out?  This one person's name popped up as "Someone you might know".  Weird, I thought I was already friends with her.  Oh well, I think the only contact we've had since high school was when we friended each other on Facebook.  I guess knowing someone once upon a time isn't enough to stay Facebook friends.

It doesn't bother me, but there is a tinge of feeling like a loser.  I can't help it.

Still not an "Adult"

Part of my definition of being an adult is being up to date on the current events both locally, nationally, and internationally.  Of course, in varying degrees.  I've been getting a lot better about this especially since I switched from listening to morning radio or books on CD on my commute to NPR.  I felt so adult like to be able to say silly things like this, "I heard on NPR that you'll be able to see the Hubble space station in this XYZ window".

Anyway, I'm demoting myself a half step and this is why.  As everyone knows by now, Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a military raid in Pakistan.  How did I find out about this news?  Through Facebook!  Last night, I was watching the newest episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent on DVR.  After the episode, I turned off the TV, grabbed my netbook to check my email and surf the internet before going to bed.  Of course, I stopped in on Facebook and that's where I saw it.  I then proceeded to call the hubster who was in the very next room (I don't like to yell at night because it causes the dogs to get riled up) to tell him about it.  I'm sure I would have heard about it in the morning on NPR because it was literally all that was on the news, but I don't think I'll ever shake the fact that I heard about Bin Laden's death on Facebook, just like people say you'll never forget where you were or what you were doing when 9/11 happened.

I guess this really has no bearing on my status as an adult, but I find it very interesting how fast social media and networking carries news.  I've heard the reports on NPR, but never really experienced it first hand.

Blast from the Past

I'm sitting here at work taking a break from looking at this product specification, and I decide to get a quick update on Facebook on my phone.  I noticed that there is this "new" feature on the phone app that says "People you may know" (It's been a regular feature on the website, but it seems new to me on the app).  Anyway, out of curiosity, I click on it.  It shows some of my brother's friends, some friends of lacrosse friends I've made in Columbus, but the majority of these people I supposedly know are people I knew in high school.  I haven't been really good about keeping in touch with high school friends.  Like really keeping in touch, I don't count just being Facebook friends keeping in touch.  So it got me wondering if I should friend them.  Would they remember me? Would they even want to be my "friend" after over 10 years?  I'm sure this is just all in my head and of course, they would friend me, but I fear rejection.

The one friend that surprised me was my first boyfriend.  It was one of those doomed high school relationships like most are.  I think we both knew from the beginning, but we were kids and the future wasn't that important (and by future, I meant marriage and stuff, not college and careers because we all know Asians only care about those things and not silly things like love and marriage and relationships).  What doomed us was that he was Mormon and I was not.  I do look fondly back on my first relationship, not just of boyfriend/girlfriend, but of true friendship.  Fondly enough to want to friend him?  I think THAT would be weird.  I'm just curious to see how his life turned out.  I know he got married which he did call me about (that was sweet).  And the bitch that I was (and probably still am) scoffed/disapproved/questioned at his choice of engagement ring.  We had already moved on by that time in life.  His profile picture has him holding a kid, so I'm assuming it is his (He is Mormon after all).  Now I sound like a stalker.

Facebook

I've had a handful of people change their names on Facebook on me.  If it's someone that I actually keep in touch with, it's not that hard to figure out who they are, but if they are acquaintances or high school friends, it really bugs me.  It will just bother and annoy me until I can figure out who they are.  If it's someone I don't know well at all, looking at their FB pages doesn't help at all because I don't recognize other people who post on their wall for clues and their picture doesn't help either!