Facebook

Social Networking………Facebook………. What do I think of it?? Well, I don’t have a Facebook page, due to the position I have at work we were asked to not have a Facebook page. My wife has one, and yes, in my opinion, it is a time-chugging website. With that being said, she really likes it, it keeps her in contact with a lot of her family and friends from Wisconsin, which is great. There was a poll on TV one night that said that the average person spends 4 hours a day on just social networking sites. I was in total shock that people waste 4 hours of their life on Facebook each day, by the end of the week that adds up to 28 hours. Wow!  My wife denies spending that much time on Facebook each day; I think she spends that much time on Facebook ;).  It is like an addiction, she will just grab the computer if the kids do something funny, or if she made something really good for dinner and she will take a picture, upload it, post it as her status. Status??.......Hmmmmmm, I wonder what my statuses would consist of if I had a page of my own??  I think probably something about the kids, work, hunting, or some short quote.   If I had a Facebook page, I would probably be addicted too.  Would I invite my parents to my Facebook page?  Yes, I definitely would, but if this was about 15 years ago, when I was a teenager, I probably would have said no. When I was a teenager the only kind of internet that existed was dial-up internet, which was as slow as a turtle. I think every day of what the internet and social networking sites will be like when my kids are old enough to use them.  I remember when you had to wait 10 minutes just to load your email, and you only had 1 email and being so excited about 1 email. Now I get my email from my cell phone and it takes me 2 seconds to get 200 emails.  Sometimes I wish we could go back in time because I really don’t have time to read 200 emails, and I think people talked face to face more. Now, everyone sends an email or texts. I’m guilty of this too; I just think is some circumstances we need to have face to face conversations and not email or text messages.