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FACE OFF

I got one of those invites to join someone on Facebook the other day.

Here is my standard reply.

Hey XXX.

Good to hear from you.

I plan to go through the rest of my life without joining Facebook or that other one.

Don't take it personally. I just don't have the energy for that stuff and I have too many internet compulsions already.

I may end up being the last guy standing and have no friends but there it is.

As usually happens, the guy who invited me wrote back and said that he, himself, had doubts about it. He went on to give me the latest news and we had a nice exchange. This almost always happens.

I forgot to tell him that I don't and won't ever Twitter either. One of the scourges of our social fabric.

Just in time, Joel Stein, the very funny and wise young columnist at the LATimes, writes about the Facebook thing today.

Facebook's '25 things' too many.

Read it.

He lists 25 hilarious, and I assume true, things about himself. Ones that would be (and are) a lot funnier and insightful than the usual mundane list of things people put up.

You gotta read it in the link.

I started a list of my own to see if I could do it.

1) I still have the same teddy bear that I played with as a child. Maybe from three years old. He was my best friend for a long time. (similar to photo but mine has all his hair rubbed off).

2) I did have an imaginary friend from the age of 6 or 7. He left me when his puberty told him he was straight. Same with my cousin Philip. Also my best friend Paul. Well, we were more than friends. My teddy bear stood by me.

3) I set a grass field afire with my friend (another) Philip. He took the blame. No one ever knew that I was with him. Well, except Philip who didn't care. He was a tough guy.

4) I always had tough kids as friends when I grew up and even when I was in college but then I became the tough guy.

[Now maybe you can see why I don't have an interest in a social network. Early childhood disappointments. And I am an introvert!}

5) I am so bored doing this list that I am going to quit. How can people spend their time on this shit?

Of course, writing a blog with three or four posts a day isn't much different than the Facebook gig, is it?

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