I love facebook. A bit too much. I have been hiatus for about a week now. I do miss seeing what my friends are up to it via facebook.  Pictures they have downloaded, incessant status updates, seeing who is interacting with whom.  But I still can use g-chat to talk to friends, email and flickr to see pictures (of those who update of course).

Walking away from facebook for a few days and weeks is refreshing.  It makes it easier for me to focus. However, there is one problem: people who soley rely upon facebook to contact you, invite you to events, and on.  To me, email is the BEST form of internet communication. Sure, there are several ways that emails can be read the wrong way. Certain interpretations can be taken that aren’t necessarily there.  I am a HUGE fan of g-chat (only a select few people on there that I like to talk to plus it doesn’t take up the WHOLE screen) BUT c’mon its IM. People sign off, get signed off etc. It is NOT a dependable form of communicating important details. Its awesome for me to bitch at  my friends about the amount of work I have and vice verse.

Facebook: A few of my friends will invite me to events via their event planner and then get upset when I don’t attend or respond. I get upset when I miss an event that I could have, otherwise, attendend if I had known. Email is awesome for that. There is also a group of people who only depend on facebook to get info about their gigs out there.

I know you can turn on your preferences to have certain notifications sent to you. But I have them turned off because I don’t want facebook clogging up my inbox.

OK, this post may seem whiny but it is how I feel.

Next a tirade on cell phones?