I absolutely do not understand the popularity of these social networking sites and I can’t be the only person who thinks this way. Would someone please explain what I am missing?
Years ago, I remember getting my first email account and how it gave me a good excuse for not returning messages right away, “Sorry, didn’t get your message… haven’t checked my email in a few days.” Don’t get me wrong, I like my friends as much as the next guy, and there’s nothing better than keeping in touch with acquaintances from the past.
However, this new phenomenon of hearing about every little detail of what friends are doing every second of the day is mind-boggling... I get little blurbs all day long, saying: “Getting coffee now… Traffic sucks… I am so tired.”
Ninety-nine percent of the time I could have an automated response that says, “Who Cares!?” If that other 1% of the time you need me to take you to the hospital for an emergency, you’re probably better off calling an ambulance (I pass out easily).
I feel like I may need to make an appointment with a psychologist. When she asks me what’s wrong, I’ll say, “Well, actually, I was feeling great, but reading all these constant complaints about nothing all day long gets depressing. What can I take?”
The best are the ones that say, “I am SO busy.” Well then, please take the twenty seconds you decided it was so important to tell me you’re busy and just relax. I’m still waiting for someone to send me at least one message deserving of a response. “Heading over to sleep with Steve’s wife” or “Just realized I am out of toilet paper and it’s not a good time.”
Nope, not me -- I get messages about what John is debating about having for lunch.
It’s actually amazing that people do this all day long through their phones. “At the beach swimming with my girlfriend.” NO, YOU'RE NOT SWIMMING WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND. YOU'RE UPDATING YOUR STATUS. Have we gotten to the point where people can’t enjoy life without telling everyone else how interesting they perceive their own life to be?
Maybe I will start a new site, mytwitteringface.com and it will work opposite of the others. Your site doesn’t become active until you have a substantial number of friends in your connections. With my site, each time you get a dumb message, that person gets deleted. The object would be to stay on as many sites as you can -- the messages therefore would obviously have to be more meaningful.
On my site a conversation might look more like this.
Message from John: “Heading to the bathroom.”
Response: You’re deleted and go see a doctor, that’s the fourth time this morning!” Of course, I may not have any friends left by the end of a day…
I know I’m in the minority, as the popularity of these sites is growing by leaps and bounds.
But as of today, I am done. I am officially signing off and going old school.
If you decide you’ve got something you want to tell me, just pick up the phone and give me a call. And whatever you do, please don’t call just to say you’re busy!
