Somtimes, there's more to life than Facebook

I've had a Facebook account for ages. I first got it because I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. I admit I haven't used that much of its many features, probably because I haven't had much time to really delve into it. I can see how interesting it can be, how involved you can get in it and even where it can be exploited to help people work. I know a bunch of students who use it to post paraphrases of lectures, in more easy-to-understand language. And that kind of thing is great - they're helping each other out. ('Course they do tend to invite just the people they like to view it and that can make people feel left out - but that's another story).

But...I do baulk at those who tell people they're nobody if they don't get really involved in these social networking sites. The thing is, some people are just not interested in all those 'extra' features, they have better things to do, they already have more mates than they can handle keeping in touch with and they don't want some spotty geezer they last saw 20 years ago 'poking' them every other second. (I'm sure most people would really rather not have a cyber-stalker). Yes, they'd like to utilise it for important, interesting, valuable things, but they're not going to have a hissy-fit because Facebook had the temerity to allow Scrabble to make them pull the Scrabulous game.

So, let's all be a bit more understanding and not sneer at people if they feel that way. You know the saying, 'get a life' - well, maybe they're already got one and they don't want yours!