7.13.2009

Things I learned on Facebook

1. When you change two of your three names five times in twenty years no one can find you.
2. Anonymity is underrated.
3. Talking to yourself is not always as interesting as you tell yourself it is.
4. Sometimes you need to hide from friends.
5. More often you need to hide from yourself.
6. When hyperventilating, get off Facebook and breathe into a paper bag.
7. Posting on Facebook and Twitter simultaneously is like making a bomb from instructions on the Internet. And detonating it.
8. Everything I learned on Facebook I learned by getting off Facebook.
9. The revolution will not be friended. The revolution will not be tweeted. There will be no revolution.
10. There will be a chain letter, and you will fall for it.
11. Post this on Facebook.

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12 comments:

Lana said...

Posted! I didn't Tweet it though, sorry. I still haven't picked up that habit, since my brain does enough twittering offline already!

ELJ said...

Karen,
I have been strenously resisting Facebook. I already do too many things that distract me and take up my time and serve little purpose. Loved your post.
Emma

Anonymous said...

I temporarily signed myself off of facebook 3 weeks ago and haven't peeked in since. How did you know that I was going to go there this morning just to see what has been going on? Now I know it will be a whole lot of nothing! Thanks for saving me the 30 minutes I would never get back!

Janola

Chris Austin-Lane said...

Just don't stop blogging . . .

--Chris

Who has found a lot of mental energy going to thoughts like "this would be a good status update" and "I should blog that insight."

:-)

Anonymous said...

Karen - you are the best. you say it all- and there's nothing to say! Ditto for me everyone's comments.
-jill d. in SLO

Karen Maezen Miller said...

Chris,
I won't stop . . . I won't even stop Facebooking! I'm just outting myself.

Anonymous said...

Oh no! Is facebook now a verb?

Karen Maezen Miller said...

Oh yes, Facebook is a very busy verb!

Jennifer said...

I actually just revived a dormant Facebook page last night.

It's like a drug.

I'm afraid to go back...

Karen Maezen Miller said...

Against threats to your life, fear can be useful.

Cam said...

I held out for so long, Karen. I only joined up a couple of months ago because my best friend put a hit out on me. Well, maybe not really, but she was just that serious, so I caved. It's been interesting. I don't do the quizzes and other things that people do. I enjoy (for the most part) seeing what the people I know are up to.

You know I'm about to friend request you, right?
:)

beautiful birth said...

I am a delinquent facebooker, it gives me a headache. Now the pressure to start tweeting? Does anyone really care what I'm doing at each moment of the day? I'm not so important. When did becoming available to the world at all times become mandatory? That's why I love caller ID, so that I don't always have to answer if I don't want to. Don't we all need somewhere to retreat to at the end of the day without some form of technology harassing us? Great post.