Oh my God!! I haven\u2019t been on Facebook today!! At all. Not even a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Am I OK??<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, I think I\u2019m just fine. Whew!! I was worried there for a few nanoseconds. Well OK, I wasn\u2019t really worried. Actually found myself doing things other than what\u2019s found on the interwebs, believe it or not. Weird stuff like visiting with family for example. I mean, we were in the same room together and everything!! <\/strong><\/em>No hugging, unfortunately. Our dear Niece and her family have been traveling so we had to use caution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh wait!! It’s my Beautiful Girlfriend’s birthday so I did <\/strong><\/em>get on the BookFace briefly to: A) post a Happy Birthday greeting and 12) show her (again) how to get to her other <\/strong><\/em>greetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t get me wrong, I do love to stay in touch with family and friends. Way back when, I tried MySpace for awhile. That was fun, then Facebook came along and seems to have largely run away with the prize. Sure there are other \u201cfascinating\u201d things like Pinterest, Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter, whatever the heck those are. Oh alright, Tik Tok is cute, maybe even addictive. I\u2019ve tried Twitter, but I must be too much of a twit to tweet. Twitter just doesn\u2019t rock my socks if you know what I mean. And as for Pinterest and all those other ones out there; I have a very open minded opinion of them all: I just don\u2019t care!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seems like I\u2019m drifting more away from Facebook as time goes on; although I\u2019ll be the first to admit that it was kind of a blast when it first arrived. Wasn\u2019t really that much different from its predecessor MySpace; maybe a little more robust. A warped mind like mine likes to play with names; especially when they are famous brand names. Therefore, it wasn\u2019t too long after I signed up for Facebook that I began calling it Spaceface or Mybook. Then a friend at work told me it was actually Facepage. I\u2019ve decided to compromise and call it BookFace; which is really not a compromise at all but that\u2019s my story and I\u2019m sticking to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I started watching what folks were posting on Spacebook, at times I was a bit astonished. Personal phone numbers, address information, everything short of their Social Security numbers! My job as a computer support geek boy has afforded me some healthy respect for hackers; spam marketeers and identity thieves; so there is very little personal information about me on my Twitface page. Even my name is altered: Mudwinkle Dustflinger. Of course, I do write this blog thing in which I basically pour my heart out to whoever cares to read it. But at least they won\u2019t have much to go on if they try to steal my identity or send me very important e-mails about male enhancement pills or inheritances waiting for me in Nigerian bank accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then of course you have the mean, nasty and often completely false posts that are simply to designed to get a person’s hackles up and \/ or prey upon their gullibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So here I am, writing \u201cHappy Friday!!!\u201d when it\u2019s very late outside, because we were having \u201cface time\u201d with our wonderful family. And no I don’t mean virtual Face Time… this was actually face to face, in person, in living color. And what am I gonna do after I get done with my scribblings? I\u2019m gonna blast it out to the netweb via e-mail and Pagebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, I’ve made an important decision that I believe will enhance my serenity and mental health: I\u2019ll probably be posting to the SpaceFaceTwitBookPageThing less and enjoying real, live-and-in-color life living a lot more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now this has absolutely nothing <\/strong><\/em>to do with the interwebs or PageTwit, but I hope you like it as much as I did. The story is from 100 years ago, no interwebs, no TV… no sound!! Give it a try. You might like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n