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Originally Posted by teatime
This is PRECISELY why I don't get the whole Facebook thing. When I say I don't do it, people whine at me with, "But you can reconnect with your friends and family!" Uh, why on Earth would I want to open myself up to that?! I'm in touch with the people I care about and could find others with whom I lost touch fairly easily. I'm NOT into the "high school" vibe.
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Yep, that's exactly what networking sites are. I think Facebook is a little worse than MySpace though. Twitter is my favorite and the main one I use. I deleted my Facebook a long time ago. I still have a MySpace but don't do much with it anymore.
One of my best friends from middle school is pretty much at the same maturity level she was then, too. I had her on my MySpace for a while. It was all just an outlet for her drama. The blogs, the bulletins, the status messages, everything. I private messaged her a question about a "female issue" that we both have. She responded pretty much like a child. I won't go into detail, but there was an "Omg, ew gross" vibe in her response. You can tell she was kind of horrified I would even bring it up. I think she thought it was a "TMI" kind of message. Because she took quite a long number of days to respond at all, and when she did, it was only because I wrote her again, saying "Well, are you going to answer me?" And it's not like I posted it as a public comment, either. It was a
private message. lol That's when I realized she hadn't changed very much at all from when we were 13 or 14. I honestly think if a grown woman can't talk maturely about women's health with another woman, there is something seriously off.
(I think I'd been having this vibe about her a while, this was just the final confirmation.)
Being in touch with her for a little while was more than enough. She has two kids of her own, too, poor things.
And what a nightmare for the OP of this thread. It was a great story though. One we can all learn from!
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