Everything we Needed to Learn we Learned on Facebook

Facebook is ruining lives. It is. I know because it's ruining my life. I can't go a full two hours without jumping on to find out how every single person I have ever met is doing and why they're now single, or their status is a happy face, or why they decided to like the peperjack fan group, but simply ignored cheddar! I also can't stop changing my status to fit my mood, because for some sick twisted sociological reason, I alos want to make people wonder why I liked Chedder but completely ignored brie! I also want them to show their approval of my status choices by "like-ing" it as many times as they can! I need them to like my status! Otherwise I just feel like I'm not interesting enough and it makes me want to scream "DEAR LORD ABOVE TAKE ME NOW FOR I AM A WASTE OF SPACE UPON THIS EARTH" (actually I never want to say that about my unpopular facebook status', but when it comes to people not reading my blog...)

Apart from seeking cyber approval from my 800+ "friends , most of whom I have only met one time, I have to go on facebook in order to carry on a conversation with my closest friends and family because they won't answer their phones because-THEY'RE ON FACEBOOK TOO! So, if I want to say "hey mom I love you so very much and apperciate you suffering for almost 24 hours to bring me into existance" it's better if I leave her a wall post. Or better yet, make it my status. Otherwise, she simply won't see it in her inobx when she picks up her phone. She might also be too distracted to hear it if I told her on the phone because while we're having a heart to heart she is facebook chatting her sister and 3 closest friends, who aren't on their phones either because facebook gives them all the information about their husbands and children that they will ever need. Sometimes, even too much information.

However, even though everyone's lives are being ruined by the social networking phenomenon, facebook taught me a valuable lesson today.


Whilst procrastinating on a paper that actually isn't due until monday (please, me procrastinate? I'm too type A and neurotic for all that. If I had to pull an all nighter I'd shake like salt shaker and lose all my hair faster than you can say chinchilla), I started playing that stupid numbers game on facebook. You know when someone messages you a number and then you put that number in your status and then write something nice about that person? Well, anyway, I started playing. And you know what,it made me truly appericiate all the people I have ever met in my life. Because, even though I may not see all 800 facebook friends everyday, heck, I don't even see my closest friends everyday, all of the people I have encountered in this life have touched my heart. They have made me laugh, cry, sing, dance, get angry, feel stupid, feel beautiul, feel loved, feel hated; but the point is, for the moments that we knew each other, or have countinued to know each other, they have made me feel, well, alive. And, in a world were impersonal communication can leave you feeling deathly robotic, I couldn't be more greatful for the gift of life all of you out there has given me. Thank you :)