Aha! It's NOT just me.

[gurdymonkey]

Everyone was doing it, you see. So I logged on for the first time. And they said, "Give us all the addresses in your email." So I stopped. Right. There. Visions of spammers and hackers danced in my head like a thousand smirky Hugo Weavings in cheap suits and dark glasses. Friends don't do that to friends. Not real friends anyway.

Then someone who is a rational, intelligent human being - or at the very least, my kind of crazy - friended me.
And somehow I tripped on a root and fell down the damned rabbit hole.  And they asked me to put my home address and phone number in my profile! Sure, that's JUST what I need.

It's weird in there. It's pointless. It's all "Here, play this game," and "Here, I saw this roll of imaginary toilet paper and thought of you." WTF? Two whole people actually asked me how I've been.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/04/29/notes042909.DTL

I don't have enough hours in my day as it is.

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[mamapduck.livejournal.com]

So if you don't like it, just don't do it.

Me, I've connected with three people from my far past that I thought I had lost forever and have leads on two more. Plus random folks I hadn't realized were missing me. Plus a branch of my family that drifted off some years back.

Chatting at a party is pointless too. We do it because it's fun. If it's not fun, we go home.