Fear of Facebook.com

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Fear of Facebook.com
Incredibly difficult for people to empathize with me, however I am incredibly afraid of Facebook.com, Linkedin.com, Myspace.com and the hundreds other social networks.

I am afraid I will have a never-ending stream of notifications. I joined you tube.com and they send me too many notification, and people want to be friends, write me personal messages, and other nice things. I have to spend hours trying to learn the site just to configure the thing correctly.

There is only so much life in me, I do not wish to spend it on the internet replying, moderating, or playing.

I am very curious, I want to enter, but they make life difficult, and I am 100 percent sure an internet page is not to be trusted.

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Panajachel, Guatemala
Monday, December 22, 2008
Travel Journal --- Hostels and Hotels --- Travel Bag Survey
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I hear comments about Twitter and Digg and the list just keeps growing.

I am a traveler, when I go to Africa the internet goes down to unbelievably slow levels. The extraordinary amount of small needs of these sites, the possibility of getting hundreds of emails, correspondence of friends is worrisome.

I am already having trouble with skype.com, I have to shut the thing off when I am not using it.

I do not know what the answer, I think every human needs to make a choice, does the internet own me, or do I own the internet.

I enjoy friends, however there is limit to my need for attention.

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Andy HoboTraveler.com said on Monday December 22nd, 2008 09:31:00 AM

I guess blogging about it put me over the edge. I was too curious, so I joined. I had 8 people waiting to be my friend inside.However, as I suspected I now have 30 emails in my yahoo box with notifiication. I am glad I have this super good internet connection here in Guatemala.Nice to see some photos of girls behind the names.

Anonymous said on Monday December 22nd, 2008 09:24:00 PM

Hi Mr. Andy,Hope all is well at "homefront". Curious thing you mentioned skype. Ive been having troubles lately also with little popups and folks in China that I dont know from Adam's housecat. I let my number subscription lapse just to see if that matters. It didnt. Crying Shame..Ive really enjoyed my 20 bucks a year phone cost.Ive been thinking about a little gadget called "Magic Jack" here in the states. It sounds similar to skype but its hardware vs software and jacks into your phone and computer access. Near as I can tell from infomercial at least. Might be something worth looking into..its about the size of a matchbook.Take care farmboy...Find a place with some Christmas lights and lots of families celebrating this weekend...F-U-N. heheCornbread

Tina said on Monday September 21st, 2009 09:20:47 AM
http://www.finerday.com

I entirely agree. I was on Facebook and have been message by people I know I do not want to message me. I can not understand the secruity settings, if there are any. However I was recently told that there are some new sites which work in closed safer environments. These do not bombard you with invitations and messages. You only invite who you want to.

The one I chose was called Finerday (at http://www.finerday.com). It appears to be a relatively new site and says it is adding more features. I am enjoying it and have added my children, who have added their friends as it is not an open networking site. I'm looking forward to their next features.

I am sure there must be more sites like this.