The unthinkable has happened. Something that I never thought would ever occur and now my peaceful and pleasant virtual world has been turned upside down.
I’ve had a Facebook account for quite awhile and up to now it’s been a quiet, pleasant thing with only 2 or 3 apps to my name, a few good friends and the occasional Mafia request and/or domestic animal thrown my way. This suited me and my somewhat non-social self just fine.
But all that changed just a few days ago.
My honey now has her own Facebook account.
I was so shocked I almost dropped my coffee and if you knew me at all you’d know that dropping my coffee is akin to the sun not showing up at dawn. I have to admit that I was in a state of complete denial for the first 24 hours before I was able to reconcile with the fact that my better half had actually joined the Facebook crowd.
It’s all her (grown) children’s fault actually. One of them sent her a Facebook invitation via email and, much to my great surprise, my lady accepted it. The love of my life, the most anti-social site poo-poo’er that I’ve ever known, is now happily ensconced in Facebook throwing things at her family, taking quizzes and IQ tests, saving reefs and giving away Muppets and all sorts of other crazy things.
And even my friends have joined her in the fracas (Grandad even chucked a sheep at her). They think she’s just wonderful (that’s true enough—she is).
And now they’ve all turned their attention my way.
As of now I have 46 requests and 62 invites awaiting my attention. It’s going to take me all weekend just to get through it all. I’ve things to receive, animals and insects to duck and throw back, comfort foods to eat (oh, my poor virtual blood sugar) quizzes and tests to take, reefs to adopt, Mafia to kill and 18 people called me an idiot just in the last two days—how did they know?
Life’s never going to be the same after this.
Perhaps I’ll sic K8 on her?
Wow that’s great that you have such great interaction via Facebook with your family. I know all my relatives live far away so Facebook is a great way for me to keep in touch with them and even interact on a daily basis.
chicago heart – I bid you welcome. In this case, having the family around isn’t a bad thing, especially considering it’s Facebook.
Now, just for your info. I’m allowing your comment, which does look much like a spam comment, for a couple of reasons:
1. I checked out your site and I’ve found no ads on it whatsoever. This was a point in your favor.
2. Your latest post has some good info on GERD of which I suffer from rather severely (service related). And your references are valid (as a disabled vet, I make much use of of WebMD myself).
Besides…I like the moniker “chicago heart”.
I figure you just have to trust once in awhile.
I flushed me Facebook long ago… too many hearts and flower gardens needing attention. Also what’s quite annoying is when you accept something you’ve ALREADY accepted and you have to go through the whole addition process all over again. *sigh*
Now it’s just the purely quirky and unusual for me, present favourite being the ‘council-estate gifts’… I love sending dirty mattresses and boarded-up off licenses to people!
As TAT would say… “but what’s the point?” The point is there is no point!
Remind me to defenstrate you tomorrow.
Hi Kate,
“I flushed me Facebook long ago”
Damn! And I sent you a Angus McGonagle Muppet thingy today too.
“Remind me to defenstrate you tomorrow.”
Okay, I’ll remind you but only if you spell defenestrate correctly.
Anyway, I’m sure the family will calm down about the fact that Laurie actually decided to get herself a Facebook account and all the stuff will stop flying around. In the meantime it’s good for my chronic anti-social nature. My therapist will be happy about that.