I love technology (always and forever)

Remember how I said I was quitting Facebook? Well, I wasn't joking.

I also wasn't joking when I said I'm going to use my (wasted) Facebook energy and turn it towards the blog. I want to stay connected with everyone and keep people "in the know" with the goings-ons of our life in WI.

I just set up mobile text posting AND email posting. Now, I'll be able to update the blog wherever I am thanks to my iPhone (just like I do now with FB).

Isn't technology amazing?!

I love that people are "inspired" by my (sudden) anti-Facebook lifestyle change.

Facebook has only been around for about 6 years; yet, isn't it funny how we feel like we can't live without it. I joined FB when I was an upcoming freshman in college. It was so nice to have an online community to meet new classmates (using an awesome tool that allowed you to search your classes based on the college you attended), find study partners, get party invites, and post pictures to share with my other *college* friends (I'm sure most of us wouldn't have been so quick to "tag" ourselves if we knew in only a few short years our parents, grandparents, co-workers, students, bosses, etc would be browsing through them).

In fact, when I originally signed up for Facebook you had to use a university email address. No ".edu", no Facebook.

 Then, Facebook became opened up to the rest of the world and things started to go downhill. It's definitely come along way since 2005 but it's also become a bastardization of it's original self. I'm not saying I'll be gone from the world of FB forever, but I would like to go at least 6 months (or a year) without using my account.

I love that it makes it *easy* to stay in touch with everyone; but I don't like how it makes us lazy. Not just physically, but also with our communication skills (and who are we kidding, with our writing skills as well).

I also don't like how Facebook has turned us into a culture of "social voyeurs". We LOVE to know every little thing that our "friends" are up to; don't we? This, of course, leads to us feeling the need to interject our two-cents into everyone else's lives (*just to be clear, this really doesn't happen to me; But I'm tired of reading posts left by others on my friends' walls).

 I think Facebook has made word vomit an accepted social phenomenon. When did it become OK to say every little thing that popped into our heads? Whether it's about ourselves or others? New Motto of the Facebook Generation: No filter? No problem!

Everyone is guilty of "stalking" someone's page; lurking in the shadows of the internet like Creepy McCreepers. I imagine our secret Facebook stalking selves resemble Gollum (because I'm a HUGE nerd). Sometimes, I take a step back and say "WOW! I need to stop acting this way" (because stalking leads to judging, and judging leads to me being a judgmental bitch...and frankly, that's just not a good thing).

Let's not forget the game requests, video posts, links upon links of random "stuff"...and the weird "I just answered a question about you" scam/virus thing. To me, all of this equals obnoxious.

...when did this post become a rant about Facebook?

Reader Challenge: I am leaving Facebook September 1st. At some point this summer go Facebook-Free for an entire week (or 2 or 3). Do it! I triple dog dare 'ya!