I hate Facebook for many reasons.  I believe I’ve ranted about it before, so I won’t bore you with the details.  However, if there was ever a time I wished I had a Facebook, it was this Sunday.

I went to visit some friends  After a long drive to the boonies, I walked into the house and found two friends busy cooking in the kitchen… and two friends sitting at the kitchen table with their noses in Facebook.  They looked up long enough to say ‘hi’ and then went back to FB.  I asked what the drama was (there is ALWAYS drama on FB), but apparently nothing exciting was happening even though they were riveted.

“Betty is allergic to chocolate.”  “Archie can’t wait for baseball season.”  “Veronica just got home from church.”  “Reggie likes my picture.”  “Midge is making pot roast.” Ummmmm… who cares?  First of all, most of these people are virtual strangers.  They are people none of us have seen in our adult lives… so why do we really care how they’re spending their day?  Second, Facebookers have no filter in their brains that tells them what’s good to share and what isn’t.  Nothing brings out your faults as well as FB.  You can see just how shallow, rude, boastful, boring, deceitful, passive-aggressive, and stupid your friends truly are… on a daily basis.  I just don’t understand the obsession with it.

Regardless, if you’re into the nonsense… the very least you can do is keep your Facebook time limited to when you’re alone.  You shouldn’t be checking it while you’re out to dinner or hanging out with your family and friends.  Nothing you have to post (and nothing someone else is posting) is more important than that person sitting in front of you.

If I had Facebook, I would have whipped out my cell phone and posted, “Snarky wishes these b*tches would stop Facebooking and talk to her instead.”  LOL