Way too much information

Recently I joined Facebook. I have a friend who I just can't keep up with unless I can see her facebook page. There are a couple of weddings in her family, and I hear allllll the time about "you should get a facebook..." yada yada yada. So I succumbed.

I have about 7 "friends", 2 of them being my cousins who amazingly know who I am, my friend who I originally did this for an a couple of others. So I have arrived at 2011 with a social network page. Yippee.

 I noticed one thing that really sort of bugs me. Some people put up stupid things about themselves. It seems less like getting to know someone and more about what they are doing at that exact moment. I thought that was what Twitter was. I find it somewhat disturbing that people are "updating", and to be real this means texting on line with a phone, while they are doing something fun. I wonder why they need to do this during a fun time. I may be the only one who notices that in a group of people out having an adventure, most of them are texting/tweeting and not really interacting with each other. I can't say all thing techie are always a good thing. Now, I have no idea if I would do that updating thing if I had the capabilities, but I still have a cell phone that only gets and receives calls and texts.

I want to say, when I am with someone who spends more time texting on the phone than talking with me, then they are too busy to enjoy my company or even have a business conversation with me.

I don't believe that I have learned anything new about my friends though facebook, but I will say I have had a chat conversation with my cousin that was good, but could have been done over the phone, as well. I don't know that I will stay on the social network.