So…I am sorry…but pretty much from day one when I set up my account on facebook, I refused to accept invitations to become a zombie, throw food at people, play poker, get into a pillow fight, experiment on mutant animals, etc….

I rarely join groups, rarely participate in quizes, never play the games, and actually….go days and weeks without even bothering to log on the site.

I don’t have time for it for starters, but after a day full of working on computer programming, I have very little interest in spending the rest of my day on a site fielding those requests.

So…it’s a HIGH FIVE from me too!!!

I do ignore a lot of the requests. Just can’t keep up with them. there are some that I will do, but for the most part, I ignore them. If I had more time, I might do more of them, but right now, it is all I can do to keep up with my job and check email occassionally and fb.

http://www.psychologytoday.com:80/blog/the-meaning-in-life/200906/sucker-phobia-the-fear-being-taken

Then I received an invitation to join Twitter. I appreciated the invitation very much…but just the word made me know that I would be all a twitter trying to figure out what to do.

As for time, just keeping up with this blog and then the Gaither Board plus e-mails puts me on the computer too many hours of the day. I figure, you gotta pick and choose….carefully. Love you, Mrs. Taff.

Love your perspective!

Blessings – Melanie
http://www.melanierutland.blogspot.com

Phyllis someone asked me to join that too and I ignored it. That is NOT something I want to do. And louloulisa, I have the same problem. I have no clue who half the people are that request friendship but if I don’t know them, they aren’t accepted.

Now I’ve done something I swore I wouldn’t do…I got on Twitter. This old lady has no business on Twitter, but there I am. After all, I had to keep up with the GVB and a certain Mrs. Taff since we’re still waiting for Mr. Taff to participate in forums.

My real downfall is the Gaither Community. I’m addicted and think I’ve moved in there…nothing is getting done around here.

Why will this blog not remember me when I carefully check “remember me”? ;o) Where is DELIVERED? It seems to have something against the two of us. LOL

I do enjoy seeing pictures of family and friends but haven’t posted any of the gazillion pictures of my family. Let everyone think we still look like teenagers.
You hit the nail on the spot with this one. I’d much rather spend my time reading your blog than facebook.

P.S. Our Florida friends will be arriving Sat. You know that means getting together with your loved ones and our closest friends. Wish you were here. We had fun last weekend at your sister-in-laws 50th party.

I’m still at “No thanks.” Don’t need one more thing..

It wss so liberating for me when I discovered that my friends do not find RACHEL BAKER IGNORED YOUR INVITATION/GIFT/REQUEST/FLOWER/CHALLENGE plastered all over their wall when I chose to say no. So that little ignore button gets used a lot. Not quite 100% of the time, but 99.9999999%.

Facebook is about faces – and status updates.

I don’t twitter because I figure its pointless if you don’t have a mobile phone with internet capability … am I right?!

You’re pushing against an open door here Tori. I feel as if I’ve killed Bambi’s mother every time I “ignore”, but have I really got the strength to hug a rainforest or the desire to find out which secret fetish I have? – ok, well, I did that one as you pay thousands to find that out in therapy!! So you would get a high-five from me too, except I’ve got about 25 backed up in “requests” along with several superpokes and a snowball (left over from Christmas!)

What gets me most is when you see some of these Facebook friends in “real life,” whether it be in church, work, school, or bumping into them in the grocery store and they proceed to share their frustration over how you didn’t share in their “Praise Jesus Party” or their “Mafia War.” And Lord have mercy on us all if we decide against creating your own fictitious “Farm Town” because Heaven knows we all need to get to level 26 so we can help our friends plant pumpkins!

I’d be lying if I said I did not feel your same twinge of guilt for ignoring the causes because many of them are worthy causes that I do care about. However, I’ve rationed it for myself by coming to the realization that there is no earthly good being accomplished by my posting on Facebook that I support Autism, Keeping Music and God in Schools, or Cancer Research. Being proactive and supporting the actual organizations are a much better method of supporting a cause.

Oh well, we’ll all get over it! Well said, Tori!

And those animal husbandry experiments in those virtual zoos are starting to irritate me! I got a message yesterday that someone had “bred 7 Radiated Tortoises successfully”. WHAT? That’s just sick! First of all, 7 is not an even number, if you get my drift! And how did they get radiated? In the microwave? Ewwwww! I don’t want to hear about this!

HEY! There’s an “ignore” button???? Where??

Okay. Nevermind.

I get over it, though.

Love ya
Tammy