After having spent some time on FaceBook, I have narrowed down my reasons for why I waited soooooooo long to create a profile to ONE specific reason. It’s feels like Junior High.
If you’re using this tool to reconnect with people from your school days, you may be more than disappointed for the following reasons:
- Remember the movie “Mean Girls”, well those people still exist but they’re adults now. Just not mature adults. While it may be obvious to some, others, like myself included, like to believe that there is still some good to be found in some people. Don’t believe for a second that because they have a marriage or children that they have grown up. Big Mistake.
- If you refuse to play games with anyone, you are immediately unfriended. This, above any other act on Facebook, is perhaps the most vile. Maybe I’m on a deadline at work and I can’t drop everything because my boss has demanded my attention for an indefinite amount of time. Maybe I don’t feel like giving even more personal identifying information to an app or company that will use this information for other purposes. Or maybe its because I find games online to be a real time suck. If someone refuses to play, its not personal, so why go to the trouble of making it so.
On some level I know my expectations in reconnecting with people may be a little high, so I am practicing forgiveness. Because, as they say, living in the past results in anger, worrying about the future makes you anxious, but to live in the present is the best gift you can give yourself.
What’s been your experience?
