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Is so much fun. I kind of like trying to force a narrative arc into my status updates. You're constrained because it automatically begins with your name and fills in "is" for you, but you can delete the "is" and replace it. Some people don't bother, so their status updates read, for example, "Jane Doe Roller derby bout tonight!!! qcrg.net for tickets!" or "Jim Smith Hanging out with mom" or "Sarah Tall Whiskey and wimmin almost wreck my life" etc.
Some people are really witty in those things, which is why I'm hooked. And the comment threads-- certain people's status updates just attract witty responses that make me actually laugh out loud.
So I've been compulsively facebooking this week, an update or two a day working on this gradually-getting-psyched-for-the-bout concept. Today I'm updating like every ten minutes with something else that I'm doing to prepare, and ending every sentence with FOR VICTORY! But I think perhaps that's getting monotonous. I won't update too many more times before I go.
What I do like about Facebook is that it is simultaneously formal and informal. It's formal in that it's, unusually for my Internet experience, everyone's real full name, real hometown, and real face-- it wouldn't work otherwise-- with things like the schools they went to and where they live now prominently listed and referred to. But it's informal because you don't have to directly address anyone, the communications are largely public, everyone can see your offhand comments etc., and it's just a constant informal chatter that means you have a vague idea of what's going on in the lives of a hundred people you've met just by looking at a single page's recent updates. People I haven't spoken to in ten years, people whose names I'd forgotten, people whose faces I couldn't have put with names, now I know what they're up to and in many cases, remember why I had them in my life once. Sometimes they were only involved because they were around, but they also were decent people who amused or inspired me in some way. So it's just nice to know whether they got married or moved out of town or suddenly became way totally foxy holy cow. (That is really fun, actually, to look at ugly ducklings from junior high and not recognize them because wow! Just wow!)
But mostly it's just a really low-key way of getting to know my roller derby leaguemates a little bit better, if only by seeing the photos they upload from their mobile phones at work. I don't know-- it feels like the future. It's banal, sure, but what's addictive are those little slices of humanity, because it's people you know and you recognize bits of things here and there.
It's nice, anyway. And often funny.
I don't check Facebook that consistently, but I have been lately. It's a fun habit.
But I don't play all the games or requests or SuperPokes or whatevers-- I just don't understand them, so don't take it bad if I ignore everything you send me. :( I don't get it, and they freak me out a little.
Some people are really witty in those things, which is why I'm hooked. And the comment threads-- certain people's status updates just attract witty responses that make me actually laugh out loud.
So I've been compulsively facebooking this week, an update or two a day working on this gradually-getting-psyched-for-the-bout concept. Today I'm updating like every ten minutes with something else that I'm doing to prepare, and ending every sentence with FOR VICTORY! But I think perhaps that's getting monotonous. I won't update too many more times before I go.
What I do like about Facebook is that it is simultaneously formal and informal. It's formal in that it's, unusually for my Internet experience, everyone's real full name, real hometown, and real face-- it wouldn't work otherwise-- with things like the schools they went to and where they live now prominently listed and referred to. But it's informal because you don't have to directly address anyone, the communications are largely public, everyone can see your offhand comments etc., and it's just a constant informal chatter that means you have a vague idea of what's going on in the lives of a hundred people you've met just by looking at a single page's recent updates. People I haven't spoken to in ten years, people whose names I'd forgotten, people whose faces I couldn't have put with names, now I know what they're up to and in many cases, remember why I had them in my life once. Sometimes they were only involved because they were around, but they also were decent people who amused or inspired me in some way. So it's just nice to know whether they got married or moved out of town or suddenly became way totally foxy holy cow. (That is really fun, actually, to look at ugly ducklings from junior high and not recognize them because wow! Just wow!)
But mostly it's just a really low-key way of getting to know my roller derby leaguemates a little bit better, if only by seeing the photos they upload from their mobile phones at work. I don't know-- it feels like the future. It's banal, sure, but what's addictive are those little slices of humanity, because it's people you know and you recognize bits of things here and there.
It's nice, anyway. And often funny.
I don't check Facebook that consistently, but I have been lately. It's a fun habit.
But I don't play all the games or requests or SuperPokes or whatevers-- I just don't understand them, so don't take it bad if I ignore everything you send me. :( I don't get it, and they freak me out a little.
