I’m sure it is no surprise to any of you that I love facebook. It definitely has it’s issues, but for the most part it keeps me connected with the people I want to stay in touch with, and even some I didn’t know I wanted to stay in touch with. It’s been especially great to find some family members who I don’t get to see often.

I was thinking about it, and the one thing I’ve really noticed about facebook is that it is much more difficult to maintain different personas with different people when you are on there. You know what I’m talking about, right? Not like you have alternate personalities or anything, but how you are a slightly different variation of yourself when you are with your extended family versus your immediate family versus your high school friends versus your college friends? I don’t know if I could even tell you the differences for me (other than I don’t swear in front of my extended family, but I occasionally do in front of my college or high school friends). Either way, there are things about you that one sector doesn’t know that the other does, and vice versa.

Well, with facebook, you can’t really have that. Unless you set up people to have only a limited view of your profile (and even then they all get the same limited view), they all see the same pictures, see the comments other people leave on your wall and get a feeling for what you are talking about, see what groups you belong to or what events you are attending.

It makes me wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I kind of lean toward it being a good thing. I mean, I don’t really have anything to hide, and with facebook set up like this I don’t need to worry as much about maintaining separate personas (although I still won’t swear in front of my grandparents – but that’s out of respect for their wishes more than anything, I think). Anyway, I think it is something that a person just needs to get used to, and be aware of.

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Does anyone else notice that when specific examples are asked for (or expected) you can never think of them? Like if you are having an argument about something someone does that bothers you, and they ask for the exact date and time of the last time they did it (or the last 4 times); or when a person you knew in high school asks you how you’ve changed in the approximately 10 years since then, and all you can think of to say is “I drink now,” instead of the millions of ways I’ve you’ve changed? (Not that that ever happened to me.) I can NEVER think of that kind of stuff. See above paragraphs and how my only example is swearing. GAH!

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Today is the slowest day EVER at work. Why is this? The day will be long enough on it’s own without work dragging by. I have a appointment with my personal trainer lady (don’t I sound all fancy!? Don’t worry – the sessions were cheap, and even though I know I’m pretty young she makes me feel old, although she is very nice.). The meeting runs from 4-5, and then I have to go to the library and volunteer from 5-7 (I would skip, but it was closed on my other volunteer day this week for President’s day and they are already short on volunteers), and then we have bowling tonight from 7:30-10ish. Mostly fun stuff, but like I said – LONG day.

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ps. We are taking a poll. Was Sam calling me the mean customer service person who told him he was “belly aching” when he called the bank? (See comments on the previous entry.) Because I know that story and I don’t think I’m her (she was mean and a terrible customer service person), but his comment makes me wonder.

pps. I *heart* you Sam! Even if you were calling me the mean customer service lady! Although if that is the case I will let you and Ryan carry your desk on your own this weekend! HA!

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I am aware that there are probably only 2 sentences out of this mess of an entry that make any sense at all (even this one didn’t before I fixed it!). I’m not sure what to do about it that doesn’t require rewriting the whole thing. This is not freshman comp, people.