Pavlina: Life is Not For the Living

I don’t get it. I have/had a MySpace page, but I just think/thought of it as another PITA. It was yet another page for me to update and write on. I have this site and this already takes more time than I have, so MySpace is now Other Peoples Space, I don’t use it anymore and good riddance. Twitter I do like, just create an account and twitter away, although I have been rather lazy about adding friends on there as well.

Facebook, I don’t get. I have heard this buzz about people using it to reconnect with their old high school classmates. My high school class has three members on Facebook, including myself. Well, I can only think of a couple of things here.

1. A plague specific to Roosevelt High School Class of 88 occurred, leaving only us three alive.
2. We are so old no one knows how to find and use Facebook.
3. No one else cares

I’m thinking number three. Which leaves me to reason why my high school class is so apathetic. If course I am not really one to talk. I never did go to my 10 year reunion. Why bother? I was just about to start graduate school and was in the process of a divorce. Not really the highest point in my life. Who wants to brag abut that at a reunion?

Me: “Hi former classmate A, how have you been in the last 10 years?”

Former classmate A:”Fine Pavlina, I started my own company and I am making millions, how are things with you?”

No thanks. So why am I complaining about these people not being on Facebook? I have no idea.

So instead of connecting with my former high school classmates I try instead others. Who are these people on Facebook? I try my job, my college, my grad school. All these people are complete strangers to me.

Maybe I just don’t know anyone. I am invisible. I thought I went to these places, but really no one ever saw me? No, I don’t think so. Even if I was invisible I would surely remember some of these people? Good grief.

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