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My love-hate relationship with Facebook continues..

Through the years I've come to realize I'm a very passionate person, and sometimes I don't just like things or dislike them.  I either love them or hate them.  And other times, I vacillate between the two for a while before I decide which feeling is right.  I don't know if it's because I'm a Leo and we tend to have a flair for the dramatic and being stubborn, or if it's just an annoying character flaw.  Either way, my love-hate relationship with Facebook is beginning to resemble my love-hate relationship with dieting and exercise.

One minute, I think it's the most annoying Website in the world, and the next minute I'm on there eagerly reading my friend's status updates.  To be honest, I was a little slow to get on board with Fb in the beginning because it seemed more for college students.  I also enjoy other social media sites, mainly Twitter and  Plurk, tremendously more.  But a lot of my real world friends only do Fb so there I am in all of its stalking glory.

Yes, you read it right, stalking.  I really think it's a dangerous slippery slope toward stalking.  You can see the minute someone updates his or her status, posts a picture, writes on somebody's wall, etc.  You can see when they've broken up with someone, or started dating someone.  You can see when someone tags them in a photo.  Which, if you'll allow me to digress, bothers the bejeesus out of me.  I don't want to be tagged in photos, I try to limit the actual amount of truly private information I put out there and that includes photos.  There's no reason people I work for or with, potential employers, my students, etc. need to see photos of Miss Attitude having a few cocktails or doing anything else that could be construed as embarrassing.  

Then there's the ex-factor.  Ex-flames, flings and even friends who "friend" you.  Ones you wouldn't mind seeing again and ones you NEVER want to see again.  I recently saw an ex become friends with someone on my friends list, and happened to notice his profile picture is him and his wife riding horses on the beach.  Are you kidding me with that?  I've never seen him ride horses in his life or heard him talk about it either, but now I know that's the picture he wants to share with the whole world.  And before you ask, no I did NOT send him a friend request.  I've seen enough, thank you very much.

I have friends on there I enjoy talking to after losing touch years ago, but I also have friends on there I barely remember or wished I could forget.  I have friends on there who flirt with me despite a "in a relationship" or "married" status.  I've even had a few requests I had to ignore, and others I wish I had.  So I'm left wondering, when will my love-hate relationship with Facebook dissipate?  

Stylishly yours,
Miss Attitude
www.missattitude.us