Dear lord

So how in the world did I get 115 friends on Facebook? I never even thought in a million years I would have 115 people at my funeral let alone that many on a social networking site! I have rescue friends there, school friends, and work friends. a couple people who are mafia buddies and one guy who I started chatting with after I kicked his butt in another Facebook application. Kind of a funny cross section when you look at them!

It's weird how sites like that afford you the opportunity to be "close" to people without actually being close to them. You can grant them just enough of your personal space to not get icky but not too much! If they really needed me would I come running to help? Yeah sure for most of them. Then again that's part of my crunchy Earth Mother side where I want to help and Mother everybody who I care about in my life. Ends up getting my arse burned more often then not, but I do it anyway. I must be a slow damn learner!

I would think that if we followed what the WHO and President Obama have kinda asked of us sites like Facebook are going to be even more massively popular than they are now. When your social networking is limited to online interactions it's much harder to spread Swine Flu to one another.

You have to wonder though what we are loosing by being such a technoligicaly dependant society. If there is that person to person contact that is missing in our lives. I know that unless hubby pushes me I tend to be a huge hermit. ( Not that I am huge than you very much but I REALLY tend to not be out and about) It just seems so much easier to "talk" through the computer than getting out there and interacting with people in a face to face basis. I suppose that doesn't really speak well of me because I limit my interaction so much.

I am all about barriers and allowing people behind you barrier gives up so much controll and makes you so much more vunerable than what I am really comfortable with. Total defense mechanism I know but it is what it is. Life and all it's troubles have really taught me that if people have the opportunity to hurt you chances are pretty good that in some way they will. Rather than being incredibly bitter and closing myself away from the world I just put up walls. Lots and lots of walls. It gets lonely but at least it's safe right??