Facebook factoids

Facebook enthralls me!! Here you are given the right to stalk someone and...they okay it. You can look through pictures, read about their personal life, where they are living, hell even their sexual and religious choices are right there for the world to see. Even better...you could almost fore go high school reunions because of FB. Think about it..

On FB if you didn't like someone from school...you don't have to be their friend. Better yet, if they try to be your friend you can "Ignore" them and not even have to deal with the face to face confrontation. When they realize that you ignored them, it's not like they can dispute it. You basically just cyber bitch slapped them. Of course remember this comes back at you if you were a bitch in HS and people start ignoring you. It's the dirty devil getting back at you!!

The "ex" situation. Now this is the odd part, "ex's" can still be part of your life without being part of your life. You can avoid "awkward situations" via FB. Granted I've only had 3 ex boyfriends before I found my husband. Well 3 that matter. One doesn't have FB (his GF does..we're "friends") The next is the father of my daughter...who quite honestly is like my brother, so no awkwardness there. Lastly is Mike-if you read this sorry! Mike to see him in person I can promise I would turn red...not for any apparent reason-just because that's what my body does if I don't mentally prepare for things. My sister has the same problem, it's not like we actually care but apparently our subconscious does. Luckily there is FB where we can talk and it's nice but you don't deal with the awkward looks.

We know when to "go out". If hubby and I want to go out for drinks, honestly we never do, but lets say hypothetically, we would do Batavia. Why you ask? Because there isn't many people I care to run into in my home town. Once apon a time I had something in common with them, now a days we have nothing. The people I would love to run into wont be out because they are all also parents too. Go figure. Secondly I know that there isn't many people I care for my husband to run into or meet. The only day I might venture out is the beer tent during Warsaw Carnival. This is because it's easy to say "HI" then ignore someone the rest of the night with no problem!

I can stalk potential baby sitters. I'm sorry but between my personal experience, FB and Myspace I can pretty much promise you that the only people that will watch my children, until they reach an age they can fend for themselves with "supervision"...will be my Sister, my Mother and Father and my Mother-In-Law. Call me an overprotective mother but I know what most teens are thinking about, because honestly it wasn't THAT long ago that I was there.

Now lets say it's time for your HS reunion regardless of FB, you now don't have to worry about what you look like. You can see most the people you graduated with on FB. So you pull up their pages and rate them on a scale of 1-10 (don't lie, we all do it) and you can decide from there if you need to lose weight, get a makeover, go shopping etc. That's FANTASTIC. On of my biggest worries was coming back the "Fat" girl...hence my weight obsession. I now know that I'm not the only one struggling with my weight!

Lastly I can keep up with the people I care to keep up with. As a parent you don't get much time to meet up with people. When you do get time, sometimes the last thing you want to do is go somewhere. FB offers you a way to keep in touch no matter how far or close someone is. Watch friends children grow up through pictures. That's something our parents didn't get to do! They had to sit and write to one another!! IMAGINE!