The Feminine Facebook

Has anyone else noticed that Facebook is a very feminine thing?

At least it is with my account -- and I'm a guy. I have a number of men friends on there, but it's mostly the women friends who do the sharing.

I started noticing this fairly early on but it's gotten more obvious as time's gone on. The other day I had the entire screen -- my recent messages, etc. -- and everything with two small exceptions was written by women.

What are all these gals writing about? A lot of it has to do with games they're playing. I have quite a bit of this blocked so I don't see everything. They're playing a farm game of some sort, meaning they need to beg each other for a chicken coop or a cattle prod or something. Plus they're busy commiserating with each other over doctor's appointments and bad news. Or giving each other hearts and flowers, hugs and all kinds of nice thoughts.

It's a very feminine place. Very sweet, tender stuff.

A Old Friend I Did Contact

Yesterday I wrote about "An Old Friend I'm Not Going To Contact."

Well, it turned out I changed my mind. I contacted her. Almost 20 years later. And she remembered me, etc., and seemed glad that I wrote to her on Facebook. Now we're friends there. More about that below.

I got to thinking, Why remain silent? Everyone's getting older. We were always on good terms, even though we only knew each other two years. It wouldn't hurt to say Hello. Just touch base, etc.

So I couldn't stand it and said Hello. She wrote me a nice note back and said she'd like to be "friends" on Facebook, so now we are.

Anyway. I changed my mind. And it worked out OK!

An Old Friend I'm Not Going To Contact

I just saw an old friend on Facebook. I decided to search for her name. There was one of her. And it was her. I worked with her from around 1988-1990, a couple years back then. In fact she was the supervisor of me, but we worked in a collegial way.

But I'm not going to contact her. Just because you knew someone doesn't mean there's any reason to make contact now. We don't have anything in common except that, and I quote her occasionally, some little phrase she used to say all the time.

It's interesting to see she got remarried, since she mentions the grandchildren they have between them. I suppose they don't have to be married precisely, but that's the way I take it.

Anyway, interesting to see her picture, that she's still alive, still in the same vicinity where I knew her, etc. But that's it.

The Day You Were Born

Is anyone as sick to death of the various Facebook activities as I am?

Here's one that's a new low. "What does your day of birth say about you?" Example, if you were born on a Friday, what personality traits do you have based on that single fact?

So what are we saying? There's only seven categories of personality traits? Because, unless I'm off in my calculations, there's only seven days in every week.

One of my "friends" wasted her time taking this important test. And since she was indeed born on a Friday, here's what is true of her:

- Wise and humble.
- Inspiring character.
- Creative bent of mind.
- Fun to be with.
- Loyal lover.
- Good looker and great dresser.

Why precisely any of this would be true because she was born on a Friday, I don't have a clue.

Facebook Doldrums

I'm in the doldrums as far as Facebook is concerned.

I don't know. I'm just not that interested in who everyone is sending virtual flowers to, getting sticks, hugging a nurse, seeing who's playing Mafia wars, blah blah blah.

I'm sure it'll come back to me, the interest. But some of this stuff is downright annoying. I keep getting announcements, like it's going to be some kind of personal message to me, and it's something like "Three movies opened this week. See what your friends think of them." Something like that.