Losing interest in Facebook

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I’ve been persevering with Facebook for a couple of months now.  It was a slow start as I couldn’t find anybody I knew but then there was a flurry of activity and I thought maybe I had a chance of revolutionising my social life like the millions on there seem to be doing so well.

I’m up to 23 friends and have been going on daily like a good addict should but frankly, although these people are lovely and I’m proud to be associated with them in whatever way I am, they are not really my very best friends and the novelty is wearing off.

This isn’t just me trying to sound as if I’m more popular than I am.  I really do have more friends (honest) and I’ve tried to encourage them to join facebook by sending them invites and even sitting with them to search for their friends and get them to join.  But of course they can’t find most of the people they know either so they decline politely.

Yes I am old (40 - don’t mind admitting it.  Like my inability to recognise that I have no mates I can also fool myself that I look and act younger) and I’ve read other people blogging about how it’s mainly a younger phenomenon.  But some of the people who have found me or me them via facebook are nearly as old as me, in fact I think a couple may be older!  So it can’t just be that.

The people who I’d describe as my best friends are reasonably well-educated, technology-literate people.  They are sociable and funny. There is absolutely no chance they will be reading this but if they are they should be very flattered by my description of them and join facebook straight away to make it more interesting for me…