I tried facebook for one day

I talked to one of my good friends from HS yesterday who was telling me about facebook. He said it was pretty cool and stuff. I had been thinking about checking it out, especially since I had been getting all of these random emails for like the last year from people inviting me to join. So I decided to check it out. I put together a quick account and thought it was pretty normal/cool, overall. But then I started getting all of these emails from a lot of people who I didn’t really know. No one that I don’t like, or anything like that. But how do you know who to just ignore, or is that rude? Do you need to send a little explanation about why you are deciding not to add them? Chances are, they are just an online friend collector and don’t really care to be in touch anyway. Then I started thinking about what if people who I have purposely, sort of, not kept in contact with, sent me something. What do I do then? All of this stuff is much easier in real life. If someone who annoys you, comes up and tries to talk to you, you just pull out the blackberry. I learned this trick from GQ. Don’t make eye contact. Just start typing away. You can even be saying to yourself as you type “having….. very…. unimportant…. convo.” Then if they still don’t get the hint, pull out another smaller blackberry and start typing with your other hand “ran…. into…. totally… annoying… person.” I’m not really sure what the online equivalent of that transaction is. So this whole facebook dilemma was starting to give me headaches after less than one day of being a member. As a result, I decided to withdraw. I have nothing against those who are members. In fact more power to you, for being able to navigate through all of the social dilemmas that it must create. I guess I will just stick to the conventional ways of staying in touch; email, telephone, courier pigeons etc…