Excerpt of an email written to a friend during a particularly intense moment of withdrawal:
Am having trouble adjusting to life sans Facebook.
Pros:
1 - No more wasting time in a creeper trance flipping from profile page to news feed to friends profile page back to news feed to friend of friend’s photo album to my profile page and back to my news feed etc.
2 - Not being able to obsess over every new female friend addition on That Boy’s profile page, try to decipher hidden meaning in His new wall posts, or stare longingly at His photos wistfully remembering a time when I could browse through them and know that He was all mine.
Cons:
1 - Losing touch. I know that one of my best friends has a birthday coming up, but which one? And when is it? Facebook would have warned me. I will have to start asking around, revealing what a bad friend I am - a problem that I did not foresee. I would like to see that band play again, and Facebook would have notified me of all their upcoming shows. Now I have to do actual work and search out their MySpace page. This is complicated.
2 - Not being able to obsess over every new female friend addition on That Boy’s profile page, try to decipher hidden meanings in His new wall posts, or stare longingly at His photos wistfully remembering a time when I could browse through them and know that He was all mine.
- e.k.
