It's 12:40 am and here I am up on facebook, penultimately. Today I read a conversation 2 of my friends were having on their walls about God and Richard Dawkins, it was interesting. Even though reading it was a bit like spying it also made me feel in some way connected. Wall to wall is like being part of a conversation, but not being the speaking one. I start to feel like giving up facebook is giving up 'connectedness' - no one will post on my wall, I won't be able to make jokey comments, how will I know what people are doing? Will i be forgotten about, left behind? I'm not sure if it was Dawkins who talked about genes and memes, that we either want to leave genes behind, or bits of ourself in the form of art etc. Now we are able to leave bits of ourselves all over the internet. Jokes that we make become permenant, we can assert our opinions all over the place, but it's in this weird world of the semi-real.
On a less ' duude it's 1am and I feel deep man' note, another friend offered to be my secret facebook spy for the month. To let me in to look, but not act. I declined this offer ( though I very much appreciate its generosity;)
Having a spy would be like trying to give up smoking by going outside to sniff fags, or licking the bottoms of ashtrays - undignified and bound to lead to a relapse.
I have preserved the anonymity of my friends and hope that people don't mind being written about, but if you do just comment.
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