Me: Hello. My name is Janet. I’m a Facebook-aholic.
Other Pathetic Addicts: Hello, Janet.
Linked In, MySpace… thou art so lame in comparison (okay, LinkedIn is cool if you are actually looking for a job and trying to be all serious or something).
One of my Facebook friends has 340+ friends. Wha–? I think I’m at my max at 21 (ooh, another request just came in — 22). One of my other friends is friends with Gavin Newsom (whom, incidentally, I met at her 30th birthday party). I know this because I’m hunting down other people I may know like I’m a 17-year-old loser sitting in my parents’ basement on a Friday night.
I love seeing the groups others belong to; e.g.: I hate the Colts and Peyton Manning more than anything else in the world, and I’m a Bostonian and I’ve seen the guy on the bike who makes the siren noise, and Unlike 99.99% of the Facebook population, I was born in the 70s.
Awesome.
I want to alter how I met everyone to “We hooked up…” so that everyone thinks I’m a big slut. And, so G doesn’t know if I really did hook up with them or not. (JUST KIDDING, G!)
Are you on Facebook? If so, call me… (or poke me. As Michael Scott says: Whatevs.)
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New post on Parenting up, about our decision to move to Chicago. Or move to a city. Or move out of the suburbs. Or all of the above.
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I’m laughing so hard over the Tricycle Man group that my face is starting to hurt. When you were here, were you familiar with Mr. Butch? Also a legend though he didn’t get around as much.
No, who’s Mr. Butch?? And I never got to see the Tricycle Man either! I do remember the dreadlock man around Post Office Square.
Mr. Butch could have been the dreadlock man cause he had some wild hairdos over the years. Go to Wikipedia or Youtube and type in the name. He died recently in a bike accident, but he’ll always be a legend here.
If you want to know what Tricycle Man sounds like ask your two cuties to imitate the sounds of an ambulance siren, it’ll be pretty damn close though his voice is deep. Only a toddler can make a sounds that piercing and bizzare.
PS You’ve also gotten me hooked on those Botan rice candies. I saw them at the Super88 and remembered them from one of your posts. Good stuff! Now I must eat as many boxes as I can to make up for not having them as a kid.
Jaye, I read about Mr. Butch on boston.com! I didn’t remember him, but I loved that there was an article about him.
And — aren’t those Botan things crazy good? I don’t know why, but I just love those wrappers.
Thanks for commenting.
Ooh-add me, add me! I’m a fellow pathetic loser on Facebook. I just joined the group, Kimchi Makes the World Go Round.
OOO, ooo, ooo! Poke me! Be my friend! You can find me under akashasdragon@hotmail.com
(If you’d like, that is!)
Most of my ‘friends’ are from highschool or uni so it’d be nice to have people I’m acquainted with from blogging!
I was finally convinced to create a Facebook account. I didn’t think I would do anything with it, but I find myself there any chance I get looking to see who sent me something or sending something to other people. FB is bad! I don’t look for anyone I went to school or college with, just blogging buddies (I’m darthfoofie BTW). I also can keep an eye on some of my younger cousins. ????