JerkFaceBook

Okay people...if you're on Facebook...and you can scroll down through your entire page and not one of your status updates has anything positive to say...stop updating...if you don't have anything nice to say...don't say anything at all...Love, Lindso....well that was positive wasn't it. I love being a hypocrite.

I recently changed my privacy settings on Facebook because I was painfully aware that there were people out there I might actually want to be friends with...cool people with interesting lives and friends from my past. People who I care about but have lost contact with after high school or college etc etc. I'm really glad I changed this all around because in the last two weeks I've had a few friend requests from people I didn't know were on Facebook. It's excited to catch up with people and see how their lives have changed.

I always dread those few people though...the ones that might find me. People who I was happy to leave in my past. Happy I don't live in my home town anymore. Thrilled that I graduated college and do not know their whereabouts...they don't know mine.

The thing is...I'm too nice. Not in the way that I'm actually nice because seriously I'm not. But in the way that I don't want to hurt peoples feelings so if they friend me I'll friend them back. Of course they all had semi locked profiles so I couldn't see their daily activities until I became their friend. Now I'm friends with all these super negative people who never have anything nice to say and the world is ALWAYS going to end. Facebook has this wonderful thing where you can adjust how much you read about certain people. I'm glad for that because I see very little about my college friends new wife and her constant yammering about their new house and excessive drinking (did I just say that...wow they must drink a lot by my standards). In contrast I get to see most things that my SIL participates in which is nice because shes 19-20ish and has a fun and interesting life. There are still those people who feel the need 6-7 times a day to tell you how devastating their lives are and how sad this day is and "Ugg I have to go to work again!" Well yes oh bright one...that is how you make money and afford things like shelter and sustenance. Of course no matter how many filters Facebook provides for you, you can not block this person out with out blocking them...and HEAVEN FORBID the status update after you un-friend someone on Facebook...I mean if waking up was devastating for them I wonder what the social ramifications will be for my un-friending.

Now in no way am I even implying that I'm more awesome than people who friend me on Facebook...what I am saying is my friendship should mean enough to you to perk up and try to enjoy life...at the very least FAKE IT ON FACEBOOK! I don't want to be friends with someone who is negative and dramatic all the time.

*end hypocritical dramatic rant*