"During the last 24 hours you were compared 3 times. You won in 1 of them." (That's supposed to make me feel good?)
"Check here against whom you won in 'who is a better public speaker'. 2 hours ago" (Oh good. I'm a better public speaker than somebody else. Why do I feel like such a dork?)
"NOTE: Check your NEW ranking!8:08pm" (I just can't figure out what's in it for anyone.)
"Someone voted for you!9:16am" (And I STILL don't know what for.)
In the last few months since I opened my facebook account, I've found myself drawn to it often. All my nieces and nephews have kindly agreed to be my friends and we joke back and forth now and then. I feel more in touch with them. My own children have also agreed to be my friend which means I get to keep in touch with them in a more fun way than I would otherwise. I've connected with an old high school friend or two (and I do mean OLD!!) and even have parents of LK's friends on my list. I get reminded of birthdays. And I get the right days for birthdays too! I get to see pictures of trips, parties, babies and other cool stuff. And I have to say, when I've got a scrabble game or even sudoku (DDD whups my ass on this every time, even though I consider myself a pretty fair sudoku player), I look forward to signing on at least once a day to keep the game going.
But I hate the stupid little notifications for things that if you bite, you have to load and then you get something stupid in return. Like when you "poke" someone. Just dumb. This whole voting thing. I never win popularity contests. Never have, never will. People seem to like me - they just don't vote for me (despite the vote above that if I wanted to find out what it was for I'd have to load some stupid program that would make me feel bad because I got one vote and all my other friends got 537 votes). These things are just meant to make me feel bad. No thanks.
So I enjoy FB for many reasons and determine to ignore the chain letters, stupid notifications for stupid things and anything that won't make me smile. Anyone for a game of Scrabble?
2 comments:
Yes - if you ask me to a game of scrabble, though, you have to leave me a comment because I totally ignore all notifications and sometimes the game ones get lost in there.
They've stopped sending me the "compare people" e-mails too, besides, I always won on "who can drink the most." Awesome. I always lost on "most stylish." Duh.
BUT there's this Circle of Trust one, with who you trust and who trusts you and it continues to eat at me because SOMEONE rated me less than a 5 on how trustworthy I was. Of course, it won't tell me who!
Clearly I'm putting up a good front because my Facebook friends (although I really know about half of them) keep voting me as "most organized" and failing to vote me "crazier".
I'll happily play Word Twist with you...
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