Trotting Across the Globe : Facebook- Do I Spend My Life On It?

And yes, I know I use it way too much.

I just thought about the amount of time I actually spend on Facebook. I spent a good 8.5 hours at work yesterday [how horrendous] and when I got back, I did nothing EXCEPT go onto Facebook. And well check my email, and my blog [hallur!] and about a gazillion other things that I normally check. Go the internet. :P

And truthfully, I did actually ask myself: What is this for?

Initially, I joined Facebook because most of my friends were joining Facebook. Facebook, the 'old people Myspace'. Admittedly, I joined Myspace too. But I couldn't take it, so I left. Facebook is much better. Call me a geriatric if you must, but I am a firm believer in and disciple of Facebook. :D My mates in Malaysia, South Africa and the Philippines all use Facebook, with a few owning both accounts as many of us believe that Myspace is old and useless and not as much fun as Facebook. In Australia, only a handful own Facebook, and are the ones who've coined the term 'old people Myspace'. So if the rest of the world have decided that Facebook is ultimately the best, who're the old people now?? XD [and let's just forget about the USA, cuz the battle between Facebook and Myspace is pretty even there]

But really, why do I spend so much time on Facebook? I have a friend, *Thingus, who refuses to get Facebook. In one of the rare chat sessions I had with him, when I asked him why he wasn't getting Facebook, he replied that it was futile, and a waste of time because he didn't want to 'follow the trend'. When I pointed out that he wasn't actually able to keep in touch with the rest of us due to annoying time zones and his apparent laziness in replying emails [especially the extra long ones I sent to him] he merely seemed to shrug it off.

Facebook to me...is a way of keeping in touch with friends. I know the world calls it 'Facebook stalking' but in my little universe, this isn't quite 'stalking', but a way of finding out where everyone is and how everyone is doing.
I agree that it becomes stalking when you spend every waking moment with the person, call them every afternoon, meet them every weekend for parties, and then on top of that STILL stalk them online every weekday night. I mean honestly, there's only so much a person can take of you, lol.
It's the only way for me to keep in touch and find out if anybody is moving anywhere. [in my case, at least a tenth of my Facebook contacts encounter a move on an avergae of every five years] It's a way of finding out how everybody is due to the ass that is time difference. It's the only way for me to actually believe that I am still a part of a person's life when they include me in their little Facebook lives.

Desperate as it sounds, this really is the way to go.

Still, I don't exactly condone life dependence on Facebook. There's so much more to life than Facebook really, and I'm sure most of us do know this. It's just like watching something on TV, or reading something in a magazine and thinking 'wow, that's nice'. But it's not exactly the same thing is it? The difference between reading about it and actually experiencing it is just that great.
Imagine you, on your deathbed [oh, how morbid]. What will you look back on and say? If you've spent your whole life in Facebook...there's nothing is there?

'Rats, I wish I'd added that Hatching Eggs app'...