Writer's Workshop 7-14-10

It happened on Facebook…write about a funny or awkward conversation you saw unfold on Facebook...

That's the prompt I chose for this weeks WRITER'S WORKSHOP at MamaKat's...

I HAD to write on this one.. because it's just sooo absurd... and since my blog posts on Facebook too, I thought I'd rehash a bad memory about it.. LOL...

I love Facebook.

I love how it has gotten me in contact with so many people I knew in High School, and all my family that live in Canada, New York, Pennsylvania and Italy...

I love all the funny banter and witty comments.

I love that messages of love and concern can be sent for all the world to see...

It's fun.

I have to be careful not to spend too much time on it though, because it can be a bit addicting...

I literally set a timer, and only allow myself 10 minutes at a time... and I make a deal with myself that I

will do 10 minutes of laundry, scrubbing, writing or exercise to counteract the sedentary 10 minutes at my computer terminal or Ipod or cell phone...

All that is well and good...

THEN....

THEN!!!!!

I got BOMBARDED to the NTH DEGREE with Farmville, Petville, Ihearts, my donkey is missing, my Cafe needs spoons, my Mafia is this, my Score is that... CRUD!!!

HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS at a time!!!

It took me sooo long to see anything of substance anyone else was writing...

so I put a (what I thought was) a benign little blurb on my FB status about how I joined a group called...

"I don't care about your farm, fish, mafia, animals or anything else on FB"

HOLY COW...

You'd have thought I shot someone's Mama in cold blood.

The backlash...

The downright HATRED I recieved was HILARIOUS!!!

One person, whom I have NEVER had bad words with, whom I assumed was a friend, we'd spoken a little over the years, and she was a Host of mine when I did Pampered Chef, got SOOOOO bent out of shape about my joining that group on FB... that she posted a NASTY message on my wall

about what HYPOCRITE I was, and how I need to be more understanding about other

people's hobbies and how "you of all people should understand how much the games on FB are important to some people's lives, because you write a blog and it posts of FB, and we are forced to read it!" then she did the unthinkable!!!  SHE UNFRIENDED ME!!! LOL... which is the same as slapping someone in the face, I understand... so I really got it handed to me... huh?

LOL

For REAL... people... she truly WROTE THAT ON MY WALL!

Last time I checked... I wasn't forcefeeding ANYONE to read my blog... but... hmmm... it doesn't sound like a bad idea now... I'll have to revisit that and see how that all works... Mwaahahahha!

I got so much hate mail about how I should just "block" or "hide" the incoming game crud...

but really... I just joined a benign group that hated the incoming junk as much as I did...

I mean Holy Smokes...

Have you seen all the stuff that gets posted on FB?

People are actually praying for the Presidents DEATH, talking about how the Holocaust never happened... and my joining an Anti Gamer Group is the WORST thing that can happen????

Yikes...

It's completely absurd...

But... it doesn't stop me from clicking on my beloved FB tab... almost everyday... and posting stupid stuff about what I'm doing at that very second...

I love me some FB...

But.. alas... because of my lack of tastes for FB games... I got virtually slapped in the face...

Game on, chick that UNfriended me...

Game on...

LOL!!!!