My webmaster told me to get a face book page, along with twitter, a blog or blogs, and any other method of getting my name on the web.  I realize the need to get the word out.  I know that the way for the search engines to work in your favor is to have a spider web of connections to your website.  Not only that, but new content needs to be added on a regular basis.  But, Facebook drives me nuts.

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated  by Facebook, Inc.  Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

That is the part that drives me crazy.  I don’t want to know when your poodle did a doodoo.  I don’t want to participate in a food fight.  Why do you want me to write on your wall?  By the way, how much extra time do you have to post inane entries on a website devoted to yourself.

I do not have the time or the inclination to face book (verb).  Yes, the word is not only the name of a website, it is also a verb.  As in, “Did you facebook today?”  Holy God save me fom myself and the grownups that want to be like their teen children with the grownup version of MySpace.

That was how this site was presented to me. ”…Tim, start a Facebook page.  It is the professional equivelant of MySpace….”  And I believed it!!!  I’m sorry, but I don’t have time for every 25 question personal survey that comes out, nor do I want to participate is a virtual food fight.    I do, however, want to have contact with other people that share my interests.  I do wish to correspond with SOME persons from my past.  I do wish to develop professional relationships.  I do want to market myself to the world.

I am not a stick in the mud.  I like to have fun.  I am good with people.  I have friends.  Ok, maybe my dog doesn’t count as a friend, and maybe my idea of fun isn’t the world’s, and maybe I AM a stick in the mud.

That being said,  where should I go to get the type of satisfaction that will allow me to market myself and keep in contact with my peers.  What forum will serve my professional and stilted social needs.  I know.  I will start a new networking website.  It will called : www. letsnotgettoopersonalwhilewequasisociallyinteract.com

Thank you for listening to my rant.  Please reply to the link above to let me know your feelings on this matter.