So this is Facebooking

It’s true that I am one of the people you can find on FB chatting away with people that know people that I know so now we are “friends.”

The humorous part is that I never was a socialite in school or the twenty years between school and the first time I wrote on somebody’s “wall.” I didn’t have gaggles of friends or hang out at clubs to meet new people. I never even bought a yearbook because I couldn’t imagine anyone that I would want to sign it.

There was a brief few years between my first and current marriage that I had a tight-knit group of friends that spent every waking moment throwing giant parties. I met way more people than I thought I would ever need to meet. So that was fun. Not the meeting the people part as much as the free booze they brought to my house part. ( I got wiped out in the divorce and lived in a rental, so I let them trash it in exchange for whiskey.)

Now I am back to my handful of friends that we have dinner and drinks with and the other group (mostly consisting of family) that we spend weekends at the river with. Other than my wife and son I don’t see anyone one more than semi-monthly.

To clarify I am not a loser or repulsive or something. I am an introvert. Not only do I not need much attention, I spend most of my time in my head, so people don’t really seek me out for company in general. I have a few really good friends that enjoy my company and understand me and that is enough. My wife and child are also introverts so I don’t have to worry about them bringing anyone new into my life unexpectedly.

But now I spend more time on FB than I ever spent on the phone. I still have less than a hundred “friends” there, but that is an accumulation of a lifetime of people that I like enough to talk to about “what I’m doing right now.”

The only thing that really bothers me is that not everyone that I want to talk to is on FB. They need to get with the program. If they would register and read all my post they could stop texting me and asking “what are you doing right now?”