The good, the bad, and the Facebook

I have been contemplating getting a Facebook account for quite (thanks for noticing lady K.P. :-p) some time now and every single time, I've opted against it. I have a few friends that have wanted me to get one but I always tell them no because as it was mentioned on a comment to one of my posts "it goes against every fiber in my being". Why? because I don't care for social networks sites much mainly due to the fact that I think of them as a popularity contest. To me, it seems that most of the people on sites like mypsace and facebook use them mainly to compile a huge list of "friends" and these friends compose of people you have hardly ever spoken to. Sure, there's an off chance that you might make good friends with someone you didn't care for a few years ago but I don't see that happening often. Mind you, I am comparing Facebook to myspace but since they are both social networks, i figured they are essentially the same thing with Facebook having the slight upper hand by requiring membership to see someones page. It also repulses me when people thank you for adding them to your friends list *shudders*.

Having a Facebook account would trigger a ripple effect that I don't know I'll be ready for. I know that as soon as I add the people I want to add, people on their friends list will notice and might want to add me and so on and so forth and I will accept cuz I don't want to be a douche monkey and tell them "I know you but I don't really care to talk to you, sorry".

There's a nice handful of people from my past that I don't speak to now and wouldnt mind speaking to again if they were to have a Facebook account. I guess I can make that my selling point for getting an account, eh?

In closing: Facebook is bad because people use it as a popularity contest (my opinion)by making their friends list as huge as possible with people they hardly ever talk to, it makes it so damn easy to stalk someone, and you might get people wanting to add you but you wont want to add them back. Good things about it are that it would make it supah dupah easy to keep in touch with friends and it will make it easy for old friends that you haven't spoken to to reach you without it being too stalker-ish.