Wednesday, June 20, 2007

friendster, myspace, multiply, hi5, now facebook?

my roommate and my brother both use my accounts on these websites because they don’t wanna get their own… and i understand why.  i’m not really into these find-your-friend websites.  yet… i do have a friendster account cuz it was the first one and i thought it’d be nice to say hi to my friends that way.

then myspace turned out to be the better way to keep in touch with what my students were doing.  plus i found so many old friends and classmates through it.  i don’t even use my friendster account anymore.

then i joined multiply cuz my multiply was the easiest way to share photo albums.

then i found out all my friends from ecuador were on hi5, so of course i had to join that.  i found my “hermanas” and my “primas” there - found out that one of them had kids, while the younger sisters are now done with high school.  was it really that long ago? 

now i’m getting requests from wrm (who remembers me?) and facebook. 

but i really would rather have my friends find me by googling my name - i mean, this blog should be the first thing that shows up when you do that.  plus, if i’m on myspace and multiply and hi5 then how much trouble can any one person have finding me?

but even though i’ve held off for this long and ignore the multiple requests form wrm and facebook, and as much as i don’t really like the entire genre of websites, i’m still grateful for all the friends i’ve lost throughout time that i’ve reconnected with thru these websites.

cuz let’s face it - i’m not the best person to keep in touch.  in fact, i’m the person that gathers everyone’s email address then never emails anyone!  i lose phone numbers, i don’t call many people and i was never good at being pen pals.  brandy has called ecuador so many times and has even gone back to visit and i… well, i’m just happy i found their pages on hi5 so that i can see what my ecuadorian family is doing =)

so even though i don’t really wanna be part of those web communities, i’m so ever grateful for being able to find my friends again.

Posted by kgrp on 06/20 at 02:06 PM
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