I am dizzy, my eyes are aching, my fingers are tired and my brain might shut down any minute now. I am exhausted. And I feel weird to be exhausted when I'm not really doing anything strenuous - I am just sitting in front of my computer, reading my friends' messages and making a reply to each one of them and answering about a dozen survey sent also by my "loving" friends. I only answer because at the end of the survey there's a warning "forward and send this back immediately or you will have bad luck for 3 months"--yeah right. This is the effect of joining and owning several social networking sites.
Back in 2003, a friend of mine invited me to join Friendster and so I did. It's fun and I really enjoyed having a page because I get to interact with my friends and loved ones without actually seeing them. It's like "multi-tasking". I can do my office work while chatting to one of my girlfriends (children don't do this when you grow up hehe). It saves time and it strengthens the friendship because communication is always there. Also, it's really fun and amusing to read the profiles of my friends and also of other people who I am not close but met one time in my life. It's also through Friendster that I found my long lost friends...way back from nursery. It's enriching to see them all grown up, happy and successful. We look at each others pictures and laugh after discovering that we just grew old but we still looked the same. Over all, I am happy and satisfied with Friendster and I plan to keep it forever if possible.
The thing is...when myspace was introduced, most of my friends joined it and invited me too. Then multiply came up and they joined it also. Hi5 became the talk of the town and they joined and sent me an invitation. Now, Facebook is a hit and almost all of my friends created a page and one of my "closies" begged me to join and so I did. Twitter came and...................you guess it right.
And you know what....there's really no difference at all. Well, perhaps an added feature, but still the same.
Messages come to me via different social networks, so I have to open each account.
Friends, I care...but could we just stick to one?
It's like moving from one home to another...
Traveling from North to South
I can't keep up!
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