Our social networking fetish.

There is definitely a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of relationship to social networking.

Once upon a time I used MySpace, and found all the info I would get on it completely useless. So I stopped using MySpace. Within the last 4 months, just about everyone in my family has started using Facebook, and I have no interest in joining Facebook whatsoever, because to me it seems like it is just a cleaner web interface to the same sort of thing I could read on MySpace.

But lately, whenever I talk to someone in my family they will ask me why I haven't joined Facebook yet. I prefer to just get in touch with my family over phone calls and in person, I don't need to drill down into every last detail of their lives on a daily basis. So I continue to remain outside of the realm of Facebook.

I do like Twitter though, and no one in my family or within my close friends is using it, and they don't want to use it. It doesn't bother me that the people I follow and who follow me on twitter are mostly people outside of my family and are not my closest friends. A lot of the things I write on Twitter aren't things I think they would care about anyways.