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[blamebrampton]

Brammers: Oh god, apparently five of my friends have invited me to be on Facebook.

Brammers' young friend: OMIGOD! I can't believe you're not on Facebook! You should totally be there!

B: I'm old, dear, the first number in my age is a four.

BYF: You're NOT old. And besides, my mum is in her forties and she's on Facebook.

B: I'm old and I have no children I need to stalk on Facebook. Also, I'll just be over there having a little cry for the next few minutes ...



Back to the work, editing and writing. Slowly catching up!

Comments

[mabonwitch.livejournal.com]

Why would I want to be on Facebook?!? Because really, my idea of a good time is NOT "reconnecting" with people I left behind ON PURPOSE!

Just sayin'. If I'd wanted to stay friends, I would've kept in touch. And if you happen to be one of the two people I would've kept in touch with, if not for your crappy letter-writing skills, you are likely not any better on Facebook.

Also, I am incapable of social networking without the sort of information that I'd rather employers didn't have easy access to. I like to work somewhere at least two months before anyone starts going "Who? Oh, yeah, she's the weird one."

[brissygirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not on facebook either! BUT my mother is and she is in her 60's so is her partner. They play with a virtual farm! LOL

I don't really see the point to the whole thing myself.

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

facebook is totally evil. don't get near it if at all possible (though you can't use your age since both my folk are on it — and use it quite thoroughly — and are in their early 70's).

[daybreaq.livejournal.com]

The first number in my age is a four too and I have a Facebook account. I believe it got started when a friend invited me and I needed to join to see some photos she had. Then my sisters (both with ages that start with threes) found my account and "friended" me and started sending me all sorts of silly games which I ignored. During Thanksgiving at our dad's, my youngest sister started complaining I have no photos or pretty much anything at all in my profile and demanded my password. She then put this whole profile in. She also pretty much "friended" our whole family to this account. Apparently, I was the only one in our generation (of which I am one of the eldest) not adequately connected. Later, multitudes of people I've known have found me through this account. I kinda passively use it. I don't contact others through it but they seem to contact me. I get invitations to cousins' baby showers through it.

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

If not having a facebook means you're old then let's be old together. :) But honestly, why would anyone want their face up on the internet? *is blissed out on ignorance*

[kareina.livejournal.com]

It isn't about age--my mother loves her facebook account, and she's nearly 70. Some of the people you know resist it because they left people behind "on purpose". However, I've moved enough that I'd lost touch with people that I've really, really missed, and I am overjoyed to have found so many of them again.

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Okay, tell you a secret? FB freaks me out! It's perfectly okay to keep in touch with the people you want to keep in touch with via, say, phone, emails, Skype, text and IM. I really don't feel like I should splay myself all over the intawebz just so some random person who barely remembers me can trip over my account somewhere and say um.hi?

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

I have a FB account because it gives old friends and my extended family a way to keep in contact without any of us actually having to track addresses (email or post) and phone numbers. Having the account is different from actually *posting* anything on FB, though: I mostly don't bother with that bit. It's mostly just an online Christmas Card list.

I don't understand the appeal of Twitter: if I'm doing something so interesting that I really feel the need to tell the world (v.rare), then I'm going to need more than 140 characters to talk about it anyway.

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

Would this be Mr B (as in not J)?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

He's back! It's Kaan, who buggered off without so much as a can I borrow your A-Z ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes! If it's not important enough for a phone call or email, it's just not important.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things that bothers me. The fact that I have a hard time keeping up with the people in my life as it is probably the major factor, though.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I need more time to write more stories for more money so I can come and stalk you in person! (And probably hang out with your mum ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I try to avoid people I've lost contact with, though! I was younger, hotter and did more interesting things when I knew them ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's about needing more time for the things we already have on! *Holds out in the Mere camp*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's like listening to my young friends explain how they happened to end up stealing street signs after drinking half a bottle of Cointreau ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

And in a few weeks, they'll send me another email and I will know what people are doing again!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I find that incredibly easy to believe.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

YES! If I accidentally run into such people in real life, I have the option of running away or climbing a tree. I moved continents to escape some of those people.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The old people are plotting. PLOTTING!!

And yes, who has enough spare time to manage multiple social networking fields as well as life once you're past 30?

Foot is being very annoying; I have threatened it with amputation as I can then have one of those cool carbon steel ones for running and a hollow one for normal days: keys, cash and a nip of whisky or a chocolate bar depending on the occasion!

And yes, I was sad not to see you, but I would have ended up climbing the walls at the glompage. More incentive to finally go to Canada!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It will yet work! Eventually ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

HEH! One of the magazines I worked on had an art department that was utterly addicted to Scrabble on Facebook. The only time they ever came to the subs department was in search of word help ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Parents who are not there for stalking are there for plotting. When the OAP revolution comes creeping down your street, remember that I warned you ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Bloody young people ...

(Which reminds me, is there anything you actually WANT for that birthday? I have some good ideas on what you could get, but am happy to be over-ridden ;-)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

One of the few advantages to getting older is that in some industries, such as mine, you need never worry about interviews or recruitment companies again.

Were I young, I would allegedly be very interested in economics, current affairs and hang-gliding ;-)