I recently experienced a short stay on Face Book.

I left because I was a voyeur to other people’s activities.

Belinda *  was constantly signing up for one consciouness-raising group after another.  Mary Ann collected friends like trophies everywhere she went.   Dorcas posted pictures of how good she was at the ‘woo woo’ stuff.  Juanita had over a hundred ‘friends’.

Donald and Samantha were already lovers. I was his former S/O. He joined first after I’d invited him.  He ‘found’ her on the ‘E-mail Friend Finder’.  How strange!  How could you ‘find’ someone who wasn’t lost in the first place? They live together! Donald, Sam and I became ‘friends’ and then she started writing love notes to Donald, with me right there to see! Thanks,  ‘friend’.  Isn’t this something you need to be doing in private via e-mail or (God forbid, save me from technology) text?

Another friend, whom I blocked at the start,  invited his other friends to come ‘do’ something to a lollipop reference to a certain part of his anatomy. Why do I need to be privy to this? Why does anyone?

I’d log on and watch, that’s all I’d do.  So-and-so signed up for this group, somebody joined something else. People would send each other messages and I’d sit there and watch.

Is THIS what society is coming to?

Why do we spend so much time signing up for activities in cyberspace?

Where is the real connection?  What has happened to phoning or writing?  I guess that, too, will fall by the wayside as we advance into this digital age.

Oh, excuse me…. we do have text messaging, something that I’ve yet to embrace.  Why do we need to be ‘connected’ to everyone we know all the time?  In this day of instant gratification we’ve all become addicted to knowing everything RIGHT NOW.  Impatience has increased with the level of technology.  It’s no longer acceptable to wait; we have to know.  We can’t even wait 9 months to have God’s greatest surprise reveal him or herself at birth.

I admit I’ve become a slave to my inbox…., but Face book is something I can live without.

*names changed to protect the guilty