I Dun't Get It!!!

Now no offense to you avid Facebookers, but I don't get it. I thought I'd give it a trial run, y'know see if I dug it... but I gotta say, I DON'T! I get the whole "reconnect with old friends etc." thing but there are some people that I don't wish to connect with! It's somewhat disconcerting to be sent a friends request by somebody I apparently went to high school with, but don't have the faintest idea who they are!! I also feel bad. I mean what are you supposed to do, reject the persons' request and make them feel brutally rebuffed? On the flip side, I like the privacy features and the way you can control what people see....but it's not without fault. Do people really need to see every time I modify my profile, or what groups I've joined? Whose with me on this one? Maybe I value privacy too much. Maybe I'm just a suspicious and inconspicuous person. I dunno. All I know is that since I joined I experience an odd tense feeling when I see that 10 people I haven't seen nor thought of since I was six are requesting my friendship. If you ask me, the word "friendship" on Facebook is used a little too loosely...

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