Just a little bit of Wisdom

I am not a fan of face book. I have an account and about 10 friends. Those friends include 2 cousins. I didn't "friend" the Girl, or anyone else her age. I am not one bit interested in what they are doing, and chances are I would have a serious condition if I knew. No one in my extended family from my generation or older is on face book, that I know of. I think, when a certain person dies, I will close my account. I opened one to keep up with a friend, but honestly I can do that easily enough simply by calling her.

I don't even care to "creep" people, you know, snoop around with names of people of my past and see if I can find them, check out what they are willing to show the average creeper person and then decide if I want to click "friend request" or not. That just sort of send chills down my spine. Information is so available, and I've tried to stay out of the mainstream as much as possible. Honestly, I am not that interesting or bohemian enough to cause people to want to search for me. I'm good with that.

Recently, my boss called me to tell me that someone, whose name is very similar to my eldest sister's name, called him looking for me. It has been 15 years since I heard from her. He called me to let me know that he took her number and here it is so that I can call her back. Gee, thanks. I didn't call her back, mostly because I didn't want to. We have not communicated in years, and there was way too much life spent to try to rehash this back up. So, the next day, she called my boss again, who then gave her my number. Really, why call back. Respect the "no call" zone. Plus, now she's called my employer twice, and what sort of impression will that make come review time? She called. We chatted. No big things happened and there really isn't any sort of drive to want to keep it up. I asked her how she found me and she said she saw my face book page, which is very private, but I had listed my employer in my bio line, so she called the office to find me. Okay, now see,  that really weirded me out. I have now taken that part out of my bio line. The page is private, so please respect that!

I won't be creeping you, I don't really care to find you if we haven't spoken in eons. While I love my memories, we have no recent past together, no stories, and the girls are not 6.So much has happened along the way, that if you don't keep friendships up regularly then you will loose it. Family is one thing, but lets face it, friends move away, make new lives and the old life is gone.

Post Script: Yesterday a fine lady went to Heaven. Though I only knew her briefly, her presence affected a huge family. This was my main reason for facebook, so now it's see you in Heaven Granny Barbara and so  long face book. (1/27/12)