Interference.

Cowland July 3rd, 2007

From the only computer in the house, our laptop in the kitchen, sounds of typing can be heard. It’s me blogging.

The Girl: You’ve been on there long enough. Can you get off?

Me: I’m not done yet.

The Girl: You are done. I need to check The facebook.

Me: *The* facebook?

The Girl: Yeah, shut up. Get off.

Me: But you don’t even check your email regularly.

The Girl: The facebook has more to it. I like the pictures and stuff.

Me: But you haven’t seen or spoken to some of those “friends” in years.

The Girl: Well you’re always on it too! Are you off yet?

Me: Uh. Yeah. There you go.

The Girl, waiting and waiting for facebook to load up: This is so fucking slow. This dial-up shit.

Me: Well you said I’m on the internet too much and high-speed would make me spend even more time on it.

The Girl: Oh look, my mother’s co-worker’s husband’s wife’s friend sent a friend request…

Me: Wouldn’t that make them your mother?

The Girl: I can’t concentrate on The facebook while you’re talking to me.

Me, off to watch The television while she does The facebook.


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  • Dr. Mommy, D.D.S.

    i just can’t get myself into facebook. it’s like the harry potter books – everyone loves and raves about it, but it just doesn’t float my boat no matter how i try to get into it. i occasionally get these random e-mails from people asking me to be their “friends” and sign on. i think the source is this guy i went to grammar school with who i haven’t spoken to in over 15 years but has my e-mail address. they somehow got my address from his massive mailing list and i’m like, “who IS this person? you’re not my friend, i don’t even KNOW you. stop clogging up my inbox!”

    is live journal still popular? my sister sometimes phutzes around with that one. i think it’s kinda like blogger, but with more sentence fragments (while we’re on the topic of grammar). personally, i like the anonimity and fluid prose of my blog.

  • Kissaki

    I’m a recent joiner of facebook and I think it’s a neat little programme…it allows you to keep in touch with people that you lost somewhere along the way or contact people that you would otherwise never ever call…

    Mind you, I’ll still probably never call them.

  • Periapex

    The other social networking sites are still popular. What makes facebook as popular as it is is the fact that there is no anonymity on it. You know who someone really is.

    I know it’s strange that true identity would appeal to people, especially me–who maintains a high level of anonymity on the blog.

    There’s just something about it that gets you hooked though. At heart I’m still a blogger, not a socializer. In reality though, facebook allows me to be less of a recluse among my circles of friends and family without having to actually pick up the phone or visit with them.

    From a communications perspective, facebook’s mobile phone SMS interface allows The Girl and me to communicate quickly and effectively during the day while we are at work. This is the way that we coordinate meeting times and places on the days that we dance. It allows for longer messages and faster input than entering txt messages on the phones themselves.

  • Anonymous

    u should make the Girl a gift and get her a comp and not fight with her for the one u’ve got, she needs her time on it too, u know!!! her friends like hearing from her, ok!

  • Jeanie

    I barely even use myspace anymore… i’m also too lazy to keep updated with TheFacebook. Hecks, i’ve been too lazy to even blog! I’m also a bit annoyed that facebook is getting more and more myspace like with all the add ons and the dodads… bring but clean neat facebookness!!

  • Periapex

    Jeanie: You were the first to know that I’d fired my entire staff though.

  • Anonymous

    Hey,”Girl”, is that any way to speak to that nice husband of yours?

  • Rudy

    How can you be anonymous here in your own blog if we know exactly who you are? :-)

  • Periapex

    You only know who I am on the blog because you’re coming over from Facebook. Duh.

    If you had casually happened upon the blog itself you’d have a hard time identifying me.

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