“Chocolate-Covered Facebook”
I still remember where I was the first time I heard mention of the word “facebook.”
My friends and I had just graduated from high school, and we were celebrating by being lazy. As we lounged around, the conversation turned to boys (as it inevitably always did). One of my friends kept going on and on about this guy she’d just met, while the rest of us rolled our eyes and said, “Yeah, whatever. He’s probably way uglier and more boring than you’re making him out to be.” (What good friends we were…) But she countered, “No, I can show him to you! He has facebook.”
Thus began–for me– the first of many hours spent on facebook.
Initially, I didn’t think I wanted a facebook account. It sounded like a big waste of time. But as the application became more popular, I realized all of the amazing things it could do. For instance, I could reconnect with friends from China, stay in touch with friends from Texas, and even find out where my friends from Japan and Pennsylvania were going to college.
What are your thoughts on facebook and privacy?
I’m not dumb enough to post info or photos on my facebook page that I would mind anyone seeing. But still, I’ve turned down a lot of friend requests simply because I just don’t know that I want strangers to have access to that much about information about my life. However, I’m betting that a lot of these “strangers” whose requests I’ve turned down are just bloggers and blog-readers. And I would like to be friends with them.
Therefore, yesterday, I created a facebook profile solely for the blog!
Chocolate-Covered Nail Art of the Day:
Hugging Squeezing a favorite fat: Artisana Coconut Butter.
Question of the Day:
Do you remember where you were when you first heard of facebook?
And what were your initial thoughts? I remember thinking, “What’s the big deal? It looks boring, and why did he pick such a dull name? This is one trend that’ll fizzle out pretty quickly.”
Hmmm, guess I was really wrong. Sorry, Mark Zuckerberg!
I have FB too, and I only accept people that I know. I have a bunch of friends who think it’s a numbers game though!!
Hi!
I read on your blog that you use the magic bullet machine. I would like to buy one, but is it a good blender? Did you buy it from the website or at a regular store. thanks
littlemisspharmacist,
I can’t recommend it enough!!
I make my “babies” and so many other things in my Magic Bullet. They’re only $50 to begin with, and if you have a Bed, Bath, and Beyond near you, you can go online and download a coupon for 20% off, which makes it even cheaper. It’s the BEST money you will ever spend!
Seriously, I use mine every day, for blended grains, fudge babies, soups, sauces, puddings… and clean up is a breeze because it goes in the dishwasher. Haha I promise they didn’t pay me to write this ;).
Love,
Katie
Love the nails love!!!
Yay for being facebook friends now too!!
Actually when I first heard about facebook I was still in myspace land, and didnt care for facebook, but last year my friends told me to join and now Im hooked! Its a good way for me to keep in touch with family and friends out of state!
I do think though that people do post too much of their personal life on there, like if they are havinga fight with their boyfriend, etc…
Facebook is not supposed to be therapy, lol!
Love u!!!!!!!!!!!!
I TOTALLY remember NOT wanting a Facebook, then I just got sucked in…guhh! It’s such an addiction – but I agree – very time consuming and I really like enjoying my friends in person than on Facebook, but it’s a GREAT keep in touch tool 🙂
That ice cream is BEAUTIFUL just like y ou!!
Meg
First time I heard of facebook was from the guy I was dating when he went away to college. I *really* wanted one and had to wait almost two years before I went away to school too haha. Now, though, I have SERIOUS issues with facebook and privacy!! I can’t stand people knowing my business and I’ve always used Facebook to connect to people for school programming and stuff (I was the president of my sorority, it was really easy to invite everyone to philanthropy events with Facebook). I really didn’t think it was such a huge deal. When my boyfriend I started dating we ended up doing that ridiculous “in a relationship” thing even though I really didnt care either way, but a few months down the road we kind of thought we were breaking up, so we ended our relationship on facebook, which I hated. I want to be able to tell my friends my business on my own terms, but with the click of a button the hundreds of people I’m connected to on facebook know my most private personal pain? No thanks. Worse, he and I decided to stay together (well, thats not bad haha), but I didn’t feel like going through the whole announcing it on facebook drama again. We’ve been together two and a half years and people still ask me, “So…whats up with you and Jon? Are you dating? Because your facebook status doesn’t say you are.” Really?! I had no idea that Facebook was actually the defining factor in human relationships, yanno?
Whew, that’s my rant. Time to go eat some chocolate butter to counter the negative thoughts!
thats pretty similar to me.. a group of people were talking and then someone said “oh i’ll show u them..they have facebook” i never really got attached to it. actually i recently deleted my account.. im done with it. ive had too many issues with it and more so seen so many of my friends’ relationships with their boyfriends/other friends get ruined because of it. hmmm good for some bad for others.
xoxo
Oh, yeah, and the cake promised to me turned out to be a facebook gift. As in, a picture of animated cake was sent to me. 😐
I remember my brother heading off to college and realizing that he was practically the only college kid without a facebook account so then I wanted to get one to be like him. Gotta live up to the big brother. 🙂
Love the Nail Art of the day – so pretty! 🙂
I love facebook 🙂 I personally like it way better than myspace or anything like that. I mainly use my facebook to keep in touch with family that live far away or friends that i dont really see anymore. But I do enjoy playing treasure island everyonce in a while!