over-caffeinated|dad » social networking http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:33:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 POLL: FACEBOOK ANXIETY http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/2009/11/06/poll-facebook-anxiety/ http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/2009/11/06/poll-facebook-anxiety/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:16:59 +0000 admin http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/?p=1013 http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/2009/11/06/poll-facebook-anxiety/feed/ 0 FACEBOOK ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/2009/11/06/facebook-anxiety-support-group/ http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/2009/11/06/facebook-anxiety-support-group/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:33:49 +0000 admin http://www.overcaffeinateddad.com/home/?p=980
  • What do you do if you just don’t get it?
  • Does that mean you’re hopelessly out of touch?
  • Or that you have better things to do?
  • If you do sign up now, doesn’t that mean the whole thing is that much closer to being uncool? And that everybody under 25 is already moving on to something else?
  • What if you sign up and nobody wants to be your friend?
  • What if you sign up and nobody wants to be your friend except people you don’t want to be friends with?
  • If somebody invites you to be their friend but you have no idea who they are, should you still accept?
  • And if you don’t accept, should you explain why?
  • Will they hate you?
  • If somebody doesn’t accept your friend request, should you take it personally?
  • If you do take it personally even though you haven’t talked to the person in 10 or 15 years, is that strange?
  • What if your boss wants to be your friend?
  • Or your creepy neighbor?
  • Or the person who got drunk at the last neighborhood block party and tried to hit on you?
  • If you sign your parents up because you think they will get a kick out of it but then they start posting updates you find embarrassing, stupid or just a huge waste of time, will they cut you out of their will if you unfriend them?
  • If you run into somebody you’ve unfriended at the supermarket, do you have to ignore them?
  • Will they ignore you?
  • When you create your profile, should you make it public or private?
  • If it’s public, how much personal information should you share?
  • If it’s private, how much personal information is too much personal information?
  • Can you exaggerate?
  • Is everybody else exaggerating?
  • If you look at the photos of your friends from high school to see if they are fatter than you are before including your own photo, does that make you a shallow person?
  • If you look at the photos of your friends from high school to see if they are fatter than you are before photoshopping your own photo, does that make you a bad person?
  • If you don’t post very often, will your friends think you’re just too boring?
  • If you post all the time, will your friends think you’re just too bored?
  • What if your updates are stupid?
  • What if your updates are pointless?
  • What if your updates are way too long and personal?
  • What if nobody ever responds to your posts? Ever? Does that mean you’re a loser?
  • Or just offline?
  • What if you just don’t want to tell everyone what you’re doing?
  • If you are pissed off about something and/or drunk and you respond to a friend’s post with an update that’s mean-spirited or cruel, can you just send them an e-mail to say you’re sorry?
  • Or do you have to make the apology public, too?
  • Where does it all end?
  • If you reluctantly sign up for Facebook, how long before you then have to sign up for Twitter?
  • And if have no time for Facebook updates, how are you going to find time to tweet?
  • What is a tweet, anyway?
  • At what point does all this social networking become too much for anyone to keep up with?
  • Have we reached that point already?
  • And if we have, could somebody please go to Facebook or Twitter and say so?
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    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: To what?
    NEIGHBOR: To be my friend.
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: I don’t understand.
    NEIGHBOR: On Facebook.
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: You have a Facebook page?
    NEIGHBOR: Sure. It’s becoming so popular, I thought it was time.
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: Seriously?
    NEIGHBOR: You might not realize this, but I’m pretty hip when it comes to technology – I had one of the first Atari game consoles… I got a PC before there was even Windows… and my first cell phone was the size of a… Hey! Where are you going?
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: To my room.
    NEIGHBOR: Why?
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: To cancel my Facebook account.
    NEIGHBOR: But if you cancel your Facebook account, who’s gonna be my friend?
    NEIGHBOR’S TEENAGE SON: Try mom.

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