Friends

Social Networking sites like Myspace, and Facebook are great. I love the fact that we can each have a little corner of the Internet to "do our thing."

It's also a fun way to stay in touch with friends and family. I've actually re-generated some friendships with old friends from high school and college by using Myspace. Of course I've made new "friends" too. OK...they're not really my "friends"...but they happened to stumble across my page, and found something that they liked, or had in common...and they felt compelled to ask to be my friend.



I really like the fact that they have to ask to be my friend. I know that sounds kinda snobby...but really, be honest...how many times have you ended up being "friends" with someone that you work with, or they live in your neighborhood, or they're on the PTC at your kids school...these are people that under normal circumstances you'd never be friends with...but because of this association...you're now forced to be friends with them or face looking like a total jerk for avoiding them.

Let me answer for you...A LOT! Sure they're nice people...but do you really want to stand around after some lame social function, chewing on an egg-salad sandwich, listening to them drone on for 30 minutes about their collection of 1980's sitcom lunch boxes? And God forbid you mention that you always liked the sitcom Three's Company.



Do it...go ahead...and I promise you that you'll be standing there for another 30 minutes listening to them gush about meeting Suzanne Sommers at the 15th Annual Lunch Box Collector's Convention in Dallas last June and how they never thought she really needed the Thigh Master....aaah!



Let's put it this way...that's an hour of you're life you're never getting back. And I don't know about you, but when I'm on my death bed...clinging to life...praying to God for more time...I'll be darned if I want my last thought to be about the time I stood around a grade school cafeteria listening to some wind-bag drone on about why Mr. Furley always wore a neckerchief!



So I kinda like the fact that people have to ask to be my friends on Myspace.

Now granted, the whole "friends" thing can get out of hand. Does anyone honestly know 2,500 people? Especially someone living someplace like...oh I don't know...
Montana? Maybe the bigger question is, are there 2,500 people in Montana...and if there is...do they even have the Internet there?

Sometimes acquiring "friends" can be fun though. For example did you hear about the kid that started a Facebook group and promised that if 10,000 people joined that he would eat all 12 McDonald's Value Meals in one sitting?




Well, a few weeks ago the group hit the magic number...and true to his word the kid went to Mickey D's and started eating. He made it all the way through the first 10 Value Meals before his body finally screamed "ENOUGH!"

His friends (I'm assuming real friends and not someone he met on Facebook...but who knows...) recorded the entire thing for our viewing pleasure.

When I think about that...maybe eating an egg-salad sandwich and listening to some dork drone on about Three's Company isn't so bad!