Facebook?

[Chopper]

Who here uses Facebook? Dub? (i know you're on the compy a bit at night) I'm Wayne Wilson....and in my profile pic, I'm holding an Angel Trumpet bloom the size of my head. Send me a request, and I'll friend you guys. I've been having fun with it. Learned that I hit everyone on my bus in the head with something, at some time, for some reason.....I'm getting the endstory on elementary school friends 35 years gone....I'm ignoring the people I ignored in High School.....learning which cheerleader became the boozing crack addict....which student council dude is in in lockup for 25 years...cool stuff. Mostly because I'd left home @ 16, was in the service at 17, and never went back to this day. Nobody you thought was a someone, in school, turned out to be anything.....they all peaked real young. The ones that have something going on now, are never the ones I would have expected...

[Gussie2000]

I do facebook

[crager34]

I do facebook

+ 1

[pbkid]

guys... look for a vehicross group... many of us are in it

[Knigh7s]

Yupper! +1

[Anita]

me too!

[PK]

Damn - I feel old.

PK

[Ldub]

Who here uses Facebook? Dub? (i know you're on the compy a bit at night) I'm Wayne Wilson....and in my profile pic, I'm holding an Angel Trumpet bloom the size of my head. Send me a request, and I'll friend you guys. I've been having fun with it. Learned that I hit everyone on my bus in the head with something, at some time, for some reason.....I'm getting the endstory on elementary school friends 35 years gone....I'm ignoring the people I ignored in High School.....learning which cheerleader became the boozing crack addict....which student council dude is in in lockup for 25 years...cool stuff. Mostly because I'd left home @ 16, was in the service at 17, and never went back to this day. Nobody you thought was a someone, in school, turned out to be anything.....they all peaked real young. The ones that have something going on now, are never the ones I would have expected...

That's interesting. I've had roughly the same experience, though I'm not on any of the social networking sites.
I've heard back through the grapevine about quite a few of the "peaked real early" folks.
I made the mistake of going to my 10 yr. HS reunion, haven't been to one since. (it's now been 34 yrs. since 1975)
Perhaps the reason I have no particular urge to make contact with the past is because 90% of the friends that I had in HS, are still among my closest friends as an adult, and the ones I had no time for then, still fall into the same category.
Of course I'm a known luddite, no broadcast TV (PS3 & lots O DVD's yes), no cel phon, never read the paper, jimmy crack corn?...yeh, that's me...

I'm with PK...MAN I feel old sometimes.

Oh, I just had a thought...Chopper (Wayne Wilson) is "Dub-Dub"......

[VX KAT]

I finally surrendered when two good friends joined and seemed to abandon "traditional" email.... So yeah, I've joined, but I can't stand it, don't check it often, and can't understand why anybody wants to waste their time reading stuff like "watcha doin tonight?" or "that's so cool" or "I just went and pee'd"...these are 3 actual posts I've seen....

Two friends from jr high & high school contacted me which was kinda neat, but that was it. I'm with Dub here (you know "the weird-O up nort..." )
...if I didn't like them in H.S. I sure don't have any interest in them know, just a waste of my precious time. I've tried and tried and I just can't understand the need, desire or obsession to be "constantly connected" and instantly accessible for mundane things like most of the comments seem to be.

Maybe I'm a anti-social or counter culture....or just annutter Weird-O.....but I fought having to carry a beeper at work, (successful for many years), then fought the Blackberry - and won!), then had to carry a business cell phone (but only gave out the # to a handful of people).....all the while being a total techno-geek/computer geek/gadget geek/apple geek......now that stuff is fun!
Nope, facebook isn't for me.....and don't even get me started on Twitter or even speaketh the word "tweet"...cuz "what's been heard can never be unheard"! :

[VX crazy]

I am on facebook, but I agree with the dub and kat on the social networking part, I just went to my 20 yr reunion and consider it a waste of makeup and gas (not me, the vx) because it was just to check out how ugly the cheerleaders turned out! I wasnt friends than and why would I be now? I also tighten up my features on fb so people can not find me if they search, cant see my photo or my list of friends.....some people just never need to find me! LOL

[CrnCnn]

I am on Facebook. Clint Nelson. My VX is my profile pic. I didnt realize there was a VX group. I knew about the Myspace one, not Facebook. RIP Tone Monday is one of the few other VX things i'm involved in there. I keep a look out.

[WormGod]

Funny you say that KAT. I only signed up because many of my friends stopped with the email cause they used FB more often. I only just joined about 2 weeks ago or so. Now, I find myself using less email. Much easier keeping tabs on the folks you care to keep tabs on, all at once. My fear was that people would find me there and ask to be "friends" and that was the last thing I wanted.... but "Ignore" works great.

[JHarris1385]

+1

[johnnyapollo]

I'm on Facebook - username is johnnyapollo or you can find me as John Eaton in Atlanta (pic is me in black and white in a tux).

-- John

[tom4bren]

Rekin I'll have to lean the same way as Lbud & Katt. I'm already WAY too connected to bother with facebook or myspace. I got a personal cell so wife & kids can reach me. I got a BB with cell so the boss can reach me. I got a laptop so I can do the email thang as long as I can find wifi. I got fios at home so I can visit here any time I want (if wifey lets me). Yup, I'm too connected already.

As far as HS reunions ... I went to a couple early on. Twin bro & his wife & her sisters were the socialites & drug me along. I wouldn't lose any sleep if I didn't make any more reunions (missed the 30 last year). Maybe I'll do the 50th just to see who's still around.