Facebook

Facebook is taking away my blog time. I never imagined I will be spending too many hours reading and messaging my friends, relatives, or even children. I promised to free myself from the internet, emails and cell phones after retiring and live as a minimalist. All I really wanted was a windy beach away from it all...windsurf till my arms "feel like jello"(windsurfer's lingo).
I lost what I should be blogging about FB. I shouldn't have mentioned windsurfing. It's almost 12:00 midnight so I'll continue tomorrow.

7:00 pm Tuesday, Got into FB sometime last year because of a friend's email with a link to FB to show a photo album but I needed an account to view them so the rest is history. I discovered that my daughter, daughter in law and my eldest son were all in FB. Wowee! Nice opportunity bonding with my kids. Being a nice dad of course, I clicked the "invite your friends" button. The next day I got my first "....are now friends" and a comment from my son - "the party is over guys. My dad is on FB". I knew he was kidding but still something was not quite right being on FB with my kids generation. After a while, everything seemed going well but "one liners" was something hard to get used to.

Fastforward 2010 - I now have more than 100 friends, mostly relatives, new found relatives and even little children not even old enough to read. Invitations from groups like "sinigang", causes like Haiti, mafia wars but my favorite is "Farmville" where members can grow plants on the internet and send gifts of all kinds. Then there's the 90% angel or 10% devil? and the daily horoscope, someone asking for bricks to build something. I wonder if they can use hollow blocks which is cheaper. I guess I'm missing a lot of fun out of FB. Tomorrow, I'll check my "lover of the day"and hope it's not a guy or a kid and then call Tara the psychic if I'll win the lottery and I'll be on my faraway windy beach under a thick Indian Mango tree (smiling).....on second thought, would I leave my FB friends?

In conclusion, I'm getting a lot of good things in FB especially the discussion board. "The page is powerful enough to stimulate good intentions and create deeper understanding of our community for worthwhile causes." (quote from a friend).