I was probably the 4th person in the world to sign up for Facebook. It was 2004; I was admitted into Sac State and received an invite from my cousin, Dean. I signed up, learned more about Facebook and I thought—”Cool! A network to build from my new school.” Somewhere in between then and late 2007, Myspace was the world leader. Then I watched my list of friends populate like lemmings. I thought, “Cool! We’re connected in more ways than one.” Right?
With texting, multiple email accounts, phones, blogs and all that other social media stuff. Then the relevant became irrelevant. Status updates like “I’m cold;” garnered 25 comments while status updates with some real meaning just vanished into the void. So I am kicking it old school. Communicating through the world wide web via a blog. I noticed a pattern in what kind of status updates received the most responses. Needless to say, they were also the stupidest ones. Plus, my 3-year old nieces and nephews and sometimes newborn cousins would add me as a friend on Facebook. Ridic. They can’t type! It was a wildfire of social media that got out of hand. So I say with great pride, “such is the life,” a life without Facebook.
Its true Jonathan will miss you.