You Will Be Assimilated
Jul. 14th, 2009 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebThat's right, I have joined Facebook. (Am I supposed to capitalize that? Or is it uncool to capitalize it?)
I really thought the last straw was going to be when my LiveJournal friend L visited from Boston and caught me up on some things going on with another LiveJournal friend P, who was off on a different trip, and she told me she learned these cool things from Facebook. But apparently I needed one more straw and that was begging from my mother and sister, who do not write blogs at all.
I prefer blogs because there's lots of space! For writing! And keeping track of stuff! It seems like Facebook is better for explaining things like "I had toaster pastries for breakfast." Or, as I was telling a co-worker, "I added a new section to the &H variable list." However, I also get to find out how people are doing and I get to see my mom's baby pictures and S's pictures of a totally awesome Hello, Kitty cake she made herself. So, I'm staying.
Okay, but for some reason everyone seems to be using their actual real names. With actual, real recognizable pictures of themselves at their current age. The real-name thing is okay with me because my name is way too common and Facebook has been out way too long for it to be easy to find me and identify me for sure. My face is unique, though, of course.
I love seeing everyone else's pictures, though. And I definitely don't like a big empty head floating next to everything I say. I'm still figuring out a strategy. For example, a picture of the back of my head would be pretty recognizable to anyone who's known me since about the seventh grade, when I quit wearing my hair in ponytails, but it wouldn't let anyone who doesn't know me see what I really look like. Or I could get some sort of line drawing of me. Or just some other picture that's not of me but somehow symbolizes me. (Like a groundhog? Look, I'm already doing a Facebook joke because I took the petronus quiz and it said it should be a bat, but it got everything all wrong, and so I hypothesized that really it should be a groundhog.)
Really, none of you guys is paranoid? It's really okay to have a regular picture out there?
I really thought the last straw was going to be when my LiveJournal friend L visited from Boston and caught me up on some things going on with another LiveJournal friend P, who was off on a different trip, and she told me she learned these cool things from Facebook. But apparently I needed one more straw and that was begging from my mother and sister, who do not write blogs at all.
I prefer blogs because there's lots of space! For writing! And keeping track of stuff! It seems like Facebook is better for explaining things like "I had toaster pastries for breakfast." Or, as I was telling a co-worker, "I added a new section to the &H variable list." However, I also get to find out how people are doing and I get to see my mom's baby pictures and S's pictures of a totally awesome Hello, Kitty cake she made herself. So, I'm staying.
Okay, but for some reason everyone seems to be using their actual real names. With actual, real recognizable pictures of themselves at their current age. The real-name thing is okay with me because my name is way too common and Facebook has been out way too long for it to be easy to find me and identify me for sure. My face is unique, though, of course.
I love seeing everyone else's pictures, though. And I definitely don't like a big empty head floating next to everything I say. I'm still figuring out a strategy. For example, a picture of the back of my head would be pretty recognizable to anyone who's known me since about the seventh grade, when I quit wearing my hair in ponytails, but it wouldn't let anyone who doesn't know me see what I really look like. Or I could get some sort of line drawing of me. Or just some other picture that's not of me but somehow symbolizes me. (Like a groundhog? Look, I'm already doing a Facebook joke because I took the petronus quiz and it said it should be a bat, but it got everything all wrong, and so I hypothesized that really it should be a groundhog.)
Really, none of you guys is paranoid? It's really okay to have a regular picture out there?
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on 2009-07-16 04:24 am (UTC)Mostly I'm finding my more recent friends by peering into my friends' friends.
Alright, I'm convinced. Now it's time to start looking for a photo. I want it to look like me, but also not just sweaty and raggedy like I usually look.