Life Without Social Networking

A recent letter from Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook declaring the recent growth of his famous social networking site shared that soon new changes will be coming to Facebook. I'm telling you now, Facebook Users, so I don't have to hear your complaining status crap later. Because let's face it, Facebook users hate the changes at first, create a million groups declaring hatred toward Zuckerberg's changes, and then eventually completely forget what Facebook used to be like.

Anyways, in my cranky, "I've got a stuffy nose" mood, I thought to myself and tweeted how I will stop Facebooking if Suckerberg keeps changing. For one thing, I get tired of statuses talking about the changes (That's why I tweet my Facebook complains. HA.) and for another thing, the changes just get tiring in general for me.

Then I noticed a few of my friends tonight were tweeting their growing hatred toward Twitter.

And I got to thinking about how maybe we've all just got the social networking blues and maybe we all just need a break.

And then I got to REALLY thinking and I got to wondering what would happen if all my friends stopped social networking. What if there was no Facebook. No Twitter. No MySpace for you weirdos that still use it frequently.

And I smiled. Seriously. Alone in my room and I smiled at the thought of no more social networking.

Here's what would happen...

• My cell phone would ring way more often.
• Face to face interaction would have twice the value.
• Running into someone would have a purpose. You'd no longer have that awkward, "Oh yeah, I know already. I saw your status update a few days ago."
• If you wanted to know how someone was doing, you would have to ASK instead of just seeing what lyrics they had put up lately reflecting their mood.
• People would probably use photo albums again because you couldn't just stalk all their photos on Facebook albums.
• The amount of gossip would probably decrease significantly as its harder to get it around by word of mouth without the sites.
• People would have to actually eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner with me in order to know what I look like when I stuff food in my mouth, rather than just see the ridic photos I tweet. HA.

Oh man. It'd be great.

But it won't happen. And it's okay. I'll admit that I am a social networking addict. I don't like to go more than a day without checking up on everyone. It's convenient. It's fun. And it's easy in a very chaotic world to lose touch with people and social networking helps us keep in touch and encourage one another.

However, it was a nice thought. A life without social networking. Gee, that was like...ten years ago.

PS. Fun fact. I was "labeling" this post and when I typed in Facebook and Twitter it automatically guessed and linked my labels. It didn't recognize MySpace. Oh snap.

Also. Any other thoughts on what our world would be like if we all stopped social networking?

What I would have updated during my Twitter hiatus

Last week on August 6 the unthinkable happened. Twitter got hacked, Facebook was slowed down tremendously, and Livejournal was hacked. Social network junkies everywhere went insane.

I was fine. I just continued to update like nothing went wrong.

Thus, in honor of this back-to-school season instead of writing a "What I did on my summer vacation" essay, I will have "What I would have updated during my Twitter hiatus."

10:45 p.m. Facebook is being stupid and slow this morning.

10:50 a.m. Stupid Internet won't let me get onto Twitter.

11:04 a.m. Friend just told me Twitter is down everywhere. Claims its because someone hacked into his account and he's getting even.

11:13 a.m. This is useful. www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com. Good to know. Twitter is def. down.

11:30 a.m. Oh. This is terrible. Yet hilarious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtMRddAIHx0&feature=email

11:43 p.m. TWITTER GET BACK. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT ASHTON KUTCHER AND MILEY CYRUS ARE DOING.

11:58 p.m. I love sarcasm. http://www.cracked.com/article_17677_if-sarcasm-ruled-world.html

12:15 p.m. Fine. I'll admit it. I feel like I'm missing out on the fun w/Extreme Makeover being in town and I'm not there.

12:24 p.m. Some Washington Post columnist thinks having FB going slow and Twitter being down is good for us. Pssh.

12:25 p.m. Ha. This is even better. AP says in the 21st century, good to ask whether world will collapse when social networks go down.

12:27 p.m. Whoa. LiveJournal is down too? Kinda creepy. I don't care what you say AP author, I will not spend time on MySpace instead.

12:30 p.m. Oh! Twitter is back up. Ain't that nice.

Since then, Twitter has gotten hacked into again (on Aug. 12) for a short period of time. Both times I noticed and was slightly perturbed. I was perturbed that it happened and perturbed that it bothered me so much.

That's So Shway

My favorite band MuteMath has a new album coming out Aug. 18. They just released a video of them playing live in Tokyo. The hilarious part is the first second. I think the leader singer is yelling "sh*t" at the beginning? I hope not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xclFRJfZdEw