why are these people web-enabled?

[seperis]

Okay, level with me--the point of Facebook is to:

a.) be annoyed by your mother's obsession with getting gifts for Farmville.
b.) learn to hate fish every time you look at your feed.
c.) so people you met before the age of reason, or fuck, the age of puberty, can track you down like some kind of goddamn dark magic GPS, because I refuse to believe anything as beautiful as computers could be responsible for this shit.
d.) ex-boyfriends from non-English speaking countries who were instrumental in your growth and development can friend you. No reason.
e.) a long-lost friend is into otaku-like beliefs but in relation to the Fae (yes, nymphaea1, I am not joking, I have evidence) and sends you pictures (EVIDENCE). Of her wings (NOT KIDDING).
f.) Fundamentalist relatives. I'll just leave that as-is.
f.) give you a glimpse of what hell will be like in terms of population. Yeah, this.

Guess how many of these are happening to me right now?

Okay, showtime. Beat that list. I totally dare you.

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[ratcreature]

This is the reason why I have no facebook account.

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I wish beyond words that I hadn't gotten one.

[fyrdrakken]

So it turns out that, by not putting my workplace or schools into my profile, I haven't been having these people turn up looking to friend me. And also by not friending my mother and connecting with my various other family members on FB (though I'm debating that one, since turns out I'm not posting that much on there that I'd really object to family seeing, and hardly any LJ friends on there that I know of and friended so there wouldn't be that social overlap I'd been fearing).