Life is going by sooo fast

Wow, it has been 2 months since I posted here. Not good, I know. But it seems that life and time are just flying by! I have been to Colorado and spent time with my family there, back home and back to work. No, have not won the lottery yet. And now yet another stupendous black hole of time has appeared to suck my precious moments. Facebook!

Does anyone understand Facebook? Where are the instructions? Where is "Facebook for Dummies"? No, I am not a dummy really, I have been prowling around the Internet since Prodigy was a child. But this thing confuses me. It is like a huge rabbit warren of Internet pages where posts and pictures, links and pages, games and gifts appear with the speed and purpose-less-ness of a stick bobbing down a stream. That is to say, totally without any sense of order. Maybe that is my problem. I like order, I like things in their boxes, or at least placed so I know where to find them. Not this random rolling, moving "wall" of information that doesn't stay in place for more than a few minutes.

Then there is my 'inbox'. It now overflows with invites and friend requests. Persons unknown to me, connected electronically by some mutual 'friend'. Acquaintances mostly, not what I would call a 'friend' in most cases. And the games, oh my, who has time for all these games? Gangsters and farms, scrabble and I know not what else. Then ,there are the causes..... who can refuse to fight cancer, autism, world hunger and the like? All my friends seem to be doing it. Does joining a cause on FB actually fight world hunger? Does my clicking the 'join' button feed a starving child in some third world country? I think not. Not that the sentiment is not loyal, but would the time not be better spent writing a check, sealing the envelope and posting it off to say... Feed the Children or The Red Cross or some truly active charity? I don't know, am I wrong?

OK, I will end this rant, for that is what it is. And sadly go back to my FB page and try yet again to decipher it's mysteries. For after all, last month, a dear friend whom I had lost touch with, from my childhood has found me, on Facebook, and we are now in contact again.

Thank you Facebook.