Even as a child, eons ago, I was not particularly interested in pen pals at a distance. The conversations were much like those addicted to short wave radio communications: "What's the weather like there?", "What equipment are you using?", at which point the conversation was over. In today's world, the new waste of time is Facebook. Social Networking has its place as a convenient way to communicate with lots of people and share (believe it or not, more than what they are currently doing like cooking supper or getting ready to shower), but it has other time drawbacks as well.
Today I decided to check out the list of people Facebook thought I might want to know, simply because it steals the names from the accounts of everyone of my own Facebook 'friends'. What I learned was that I have a granddaughter who corresponds with everyone she ever knew, and that I really don't care to know the people others know. The list was as long as the number of plastic bottles we would save if we drank well water.
In slightly less than two hours (as I multi-tasked to keep from barfing on the monitor which would not be a pleasant clean-up) I was through the thousands of people on the list whom I don't know and don't care to know. I'm reminded me of the advice I was given once,' when it works, leave it alone and stop trying to improve it.'. I'm not sure but Google+ might be an improvement...I'm somewhat loathe to add it to the daily grind.
Today I decided to check out the list of people Facebook thought I might want to know, simply because it steals the names from the accounts of everyone of my own Facebook 'friends'. What I learned was that I have a granddaughter who corresponds with everyone she ever knew, and that I really don't care to know the people others know. The list was as long as the number of plastic bottles we would save if we drank well water.In slightly less than two hours (as I multi-tasked to keep from barfing on the monitor which would not be a pleasant clean-up) I was through the thousands of people on the list whom I don't know and don't care to know. I'm reminded me of the advice I was given once,' when it works, leave it alone and stop trying to improve it.'. I'm not sure but Google+ might be an improvement...I'm somewhat loathe to add it to the daily grind.
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