I Broke Facebook

[blunthead]

I joined Facebook a long time ago, but couldn't figure it out because it was so different from any other networking site I'd been used to, so I didn't use it for at least a year, long enough to forget I'd created the profile. So, there are two of me on FB. One I can't access myself, so I can't respond to anyone who ever tried to contact me there. The only real reason I use it anymore is because FB's the only way I can stay in touch with certain people.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I joined Facebook a long time ago, but couldn't figure it out because it was so different from any other networking site I'd been used to, so I didn't use it for at least a year, long enough to forget I'd created the profile. So, there are two of me on FB. One I can't access myself, so I can't respond to anyone who ever tried to contact me there. The only real reason I use it anymore is because FB's the only way I can stay in touch with certain people.

That's funny - and you know there are folks out there wondering why you won't be their friend!

I take things way too seriously and am easily wounded. I should be over high school, and it wasn't all bad, but there were a few glitches and when I saw them on facebook, I felt 15 all over again. Mayhap I need therapy. I heard somewhere once that when something tragic happens in your life, you get stuck there sometimes, Word!

 

[blunthead]

That's funny - and you know there are folks out there wondering why you won't be their friend!

I take things way too seriously and am easily wounded. I should be over high school, and it wasn't all bad, but there were a few glitches and when I saw them on facebook, I felt 15 all over again. Mayhap I need therapy. I heard somewhere once that when something tragic happens in your life, you get stuck there sometimes, Word!

The first profile I created seems not to work at all anymore, very few people contacted me there in the first place, and after I created the second profile I contacted everyone I wanted to add to my Friends list. I should probably see if I can get FB powers that be to let me look in there again, then get rid of it.

I don't know for sure but I assume that everybody could use therapy.

 

[AnnaMarie]

I didn't suffer a LOT of bullying. But it started in elementary school, I had a one year reprieve when I started high school (only one from my elementary that went there) but when I was in grade 10 it started up again when the bully transferred to my school and had her entire gang around her.

A few years ago, I went to my elementary school reunion. I met up with several people I had gone to school with from kindie to grade eight. In walked the bully. And I didn't see one single person talk to her. NOT ONE.

One of my friends took the opportunity to remind people of what they did to her all those years ago. I guess in the end maybe it made her feel better....but I suspect it just reminded people of why they did some of what they did.

Students from my high school have been getting together every year. It's always been an open invitation, but of course, if you weren't in the in-crowd, how would you have known? Last year I did see posts, but since I don't drink and I don't eat in restaurants, and these people wouldn't know me if they tripped over me, I skipped it. Saw the pictures posted afterwards, and there were only two people who might have recognized me. Next year is a big reunion at the school, and I will probably go to it.

 

[arista]

Anne Marie-I can totally relate with your story..I go to the high school reunion every time, because I prove to myself I am not that same person who was intimidated but I am my own person.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...the next one is a must attend...it'll be my 35th...and I just wanna show up and chortle, giggle and snigger at the droopy azzes and beer bellies...my own included...

 

[HollyGolightly]

Ha - I'm usually one of the crazies organizing the reunion. It wasn't all bad. I think facebook just brings out the cynical envious skeptical monster in me.

 

[Lisey Landon]

I disabled my Facebook account for a year and a half, while going through my divorce. Just couldn't handle nosy people, rumors, questions, etc. during that time. But, having moved around as much as I have, Facebook is kind of the only way to stay in touch with friends that live far away. Just seeing their updates and pics, I feel that I am still, in some way, part of their lives.
That being said, I probably curse Facebook 10 times a day. Some people post the most horrible things, and I have had some shocking surprises when it comes to what some friends really think about issues that are important to me.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I often forget that FB is even there. I might log in once every week or so? Sometimes not for weeks at a time.

 

[Lisey Landon]

I often forget that FB is even there. I might log in once every week or so? Sometimes not for weeks at a time.

After I became more active here, facebook seems less and less interesting.

 

[FlakeNoir]

After I became more active here, facebook seems less and less interesting.

Since I started moderating I've had a lot less time to spend elsewhere online, there are a couple of places that I used to go to regularly that I haven't visited in months... I feel kind of guilty about that, but I try not to spend too much time online if I can help it.

 

[Lisey Landon]

Since I started moderating I've had a lot less time to spend elsewhere online, there are a couple of places that I used to go to regularly that I haven't visited in months... I feel kind of guilty about that, but I try not to spend too much time online if I can help it.

I have the same problem. I am trying now, to watch a movie without checking my ipad during the movie, or just spend time with my boyfriend without checking constantly. It is a challenge when you work online, but I am determined to find a way to be totally offline for some hours every day. And I have succeeded for a couple of days now