I'm stepping out

For quite sometime I was one of those believers that this is a networking generation. That soon everyone would be on facebook and that would become the new version of conversation. And then I started thinking, if this is how we will communicate, what's next? Then I had this image of the movie Walle and all of us sitting on these hover chairs, talking through camera telephones and never REALLY interacting with one another. I know the world we live in is ever changing but I still want to keep it simple. I spent way too much time on facebook and would waste so much time when I could be out actually doing something than sitting on a computer stalking my friends. And I found it weird when my friends parents got a facebook and then kids I babysat got a facebook and then my dad got a facebook (no offense dad). And it was annoying when facebook started telling me to send my friends messages. So I thought, I obviously don't speak to these people when facebook has made it so easy for me. Before facebook I made it an active choice to keep in touch with my friends. I made plans to see them, was always excited when I heard someone got engaged or was having a baby but now facebook has given too much that I don't try to keep up with my friends life (the whole "once it's on facebook, it's official" crap...). Now I have something to work on. Keeping up with my friends because I want to, not because they showed up in my news feed. Hopefully some of you agree with my views on this. Facebook was fun for awhile but when you keep seeing photos of people you would like to forget, it gets kind of old. Maybe one day I'll pop back in, but not anytime soon.