FACEBOOK.......

ohhhhhhhhhh FACEBOOK you fickle mistress.

the world is abuzz with you.....everyone loves you.

I GOT YOUR TWITTER RIGHT HERE!

ha!

I will admit , that I spend a little too much time on FACEBOOK and well it's a time suck.those of you snickering right now "OHHHH STOP IT" I have had some great things happen as a result of being on the oh so great and the best thing since sliced bread social network.

The sheer amount of friends from the past that I have reconnected with is nuts. Talking to people I haven't seen since nursery school ( that's a tough conversation to fill in the cracks on! ) "hey what have you been up to since I last saw you eating paste?" is a LONG conversation to have. I also have friends on there that I don't KNOW AT ALL and that brings me to my point. I make musics.....I offer musical offerings and I think I messed up on Facebook and now its essentially MYSPACE with more info about people I don't really need to know about.

But...back to the more positive things. I have reconnected with one of my oldest friends from childhood. I have been back in touch with old college friends. Great old friends from high school ( I left at 15 so, well.....not that many great old friends but folks I knew at that time in my life and that have growed up to be good eggs ) and lastly lots of my brothers friends who I had lost contact with.

HERE IS ONE THING I NOTICE THOUGH

Lots of the interactions on the facebooks are as follows. You hear from someone you haven't heard from since the 5th grade. You both are really excited about it. You trade a couple of messages of private emails. You make plans to meet up tentatively and then neither one of you really does anything about it. I equate it to the amazing scene in Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry makes pretend to reach for the "OPEN" button in the elevator at the Dr's office. That sort of I will make pretend to make an effort face but in the end , I really am not making ONE single solitary move to do anything more than I need to at any time or increase my level of energy/effort. It's such a great social networking phenomenon. the "oh that sounds nice but we both know we are never going to do a single thing to actually get together" factor. LOVE IT!

FACEBOOK brings us all back together to then awkwardly not FINISH THE task! HA!

There is a reason I haven't seen some of you since the 5th grade. maybe you poked me in the eyes during a basketball game therefor forever making me think you were a schmuck. Or maybe you were a a kid that tried to bully me and I kicked you in the balls? I think our work is done. No need to be back in touch I've kneed you in the balls....must we be back in touch with one another? winces....I thought so....

For those people who say "what about getting back in touch and sharing old times and being sentimental?"

to thee I say.

fair enough. you are right. and there are certainly examples of folks you get back in touch with that you continue to stay in touch with and become great friends with again. Maybe it is finally time to get over the fact that I had pudding stuffed down my shirt by you. Maybe indeed.

I have a weird situation though, where I really don't know 1000 of my friends. Sure we might have 45 friends in common. BUT ISN'T THAT WHAT MYSPACE IS LIKE? I'm a recording artist so even though I have upwards of 3-4 dozen fans world wide ( WOO HA! ) I don't know them personally but if they ask me to be friends and I ignore them?.....well then that just makes me a schmuck ( actually the fact that someone was able to stuff pudding down my shirt might make me a schmuck...or them? ) anyway.....you see my problem. Its a social networking site but I don't really get to use it the right way. BUT.......neither do any of my friends. Do you know who uses it the right way?

MY MOTHER!

insane right? She and I were speaking the other night and her daughter in law had set up a facebook page for her and she literally is only friends with her family ( SONS ) and their spouses/gf's and THAT IS THAT. So she actually kind of gets it. She told me. I am not friends with anyone else. I just want to see what you guys are up to and that's it. We will see over time if she sticks to that but if she does that will be cool. I know that this started in colleges and was used by kids to stay in touch with what was going on on campus but even then when you have 436 friends and you go to Yale. Come on. You might as well be friends with everyone in your class at that point. Its effectively turned into a yellowpages of sorts when you are friends with 436 people.

Even my best friends...my gf.....everyone sort of has jumped the shark with this thing and is now in groups they never visit the pages for or friends with folks they don't really know. Myspace and Facebook get used for dating and hooking up. The instant that happens its no longer a social network. Its match.com for folks who are afraid of going on match.com ( you should be afraid btw.....very afraid) I understand that it's kind of comforting to see someone that friends with someone you know and maybe send them a note and its "SAFER" ...but.....it's not safer if they are friends with someone and only SORT OF know that someone. Then it's just basically a dating site. WE KNOW MY FEELINGS ABOUT DATING ( brings in panzer tanks ... surrounds "dating".....shoots it)

I would love to do an experiment where you literally go through your friends list and eliminate folks you don't really speak to. If you erased everyone you didn't know personally and who you had not seen in a certain amount of time or spoken to. The numbers obviously would fall drastically. for example I have 1,374 friends. I think my number would drops to like 1,273 ( kidding ) i would literally maybe have 50-100 actual friends/family that I care for and would actually unlike Larry David hold the "open" button on the elevator for.

try it.....I SAID TRY IT!!!!!

* leaves website and goes back to writing music *

be well,

MOWO!