Face (not so good) book

What the hell....It can't be four months since my last post. This year is just flying by like shit through a goose. Well time for a little update cause god knows it could be Christmas before I do this again.

Things are still status quo on the domestic front with friends and family, no deaths, births, or incarcerations. Yeah! Mostly still dancing and doing my country activities, which eats up the bulk of my time. Oh yeah, and work.

One new wrinkle to my daily grind is this thing called facebook. I created an account in February, and it has turned into a mild addiction as I find myself checking this silly thing at least three times a day, to see who, what, and where is going on. Its like some cheap voyeuristic sort of thing as you find people that you haven't seen in thirty years, and suddenly you are right back in their lives with a simple little friend request. Its sort of neat to find former classmates etc...and reconnect. Even in a casual way to see how everyone is doing.

My biggest disappointment with Face book is the amount of crap that they offer to keep you on their site. Instead of general conversations between old friends, they have all of these games, and quiz's, and make believe wars, and surveys, and on and on with this stuff to do while you are on their site, so that you can post the results of what kind of ass you have to all of your friends. I think what bothers me most is that its a continually dumbing down of people into some soap opera stuff that doesn't make a nickels worth of difference. When the site could be used to reconnect with people who we haven't seen in years and have some sort of meaningful conversation. It disappoints me on some level to see my face book friends get caught up in this stuff when we could actually have a conversation about most anything other than who looks the most like Brad Pitt etc... etc....

I understand that on some level it is supposed to be entertaining, but to me it is like the sit. coms on television that aren't funny; if it weren't for the canned laughter nobody would laugh.