De-facing

My new thing is facebook. For those two of you who do not know what it is, I will tell you. It is a dangerously delicious way to waste time and invites an audience into the really boring stupid stuff I do all day.  Friends answer the question "what are you doing right now?" and it has a template that begins "Jill is..."  This is all I ever wanted, life is FINALLY, APPROPRIATELY the JILLIBEE SHOW!!  This is a scary trend, suddenly everything I do has a third person narration and I am feeding my short attention span and losing my discipline. 

Jill is blogging

Jill is teaching her daughter a new tune to sing in a couple weeks

Jill has re-discovered the song "Sunny" and sang it real loudly half a dozen times while rocking out to my "hits of the 70's and 80's piano song book"

Jill is going to take piano lessons again.

Jill needs to follow up on the Interior design book project.

Jill can't wait to stop blogging so she can get back to facebook.

See the problem?  Facebook is to writing as Mcdonalds is to home made meat loaf.  Oh my gosh, I have to go share that on my facebook status RIGHT AWAY!

Comments

[Jenifer Kwasniewski]

Jill - I don't confuse FB with "writing". I see it as a way to stay connected to people I cannot be with.

I LOVE reading a one liner from my 16 year old niece - last status update "Tara is nap timee :)"

I know that my sister Vicki went to Bible study the other night.

I am thousands of miles away from my family and close friends back in Ohio, and these little insights into their lives are priceless to me.

I work from home and it can get a bit claustrophobic at times. Checking up on what my friends are up to gives me a "water cooler" moment in my otherwise solitary day.

But, it's certainly not writing!

Jenifer

[Jillibee]

Amen to all of that! Though I love reading people's stuff! It is so great to keep up with people and I too work at home so it is marvelous to not be invisible anymore!

I have read some great stuff on FB and even written a limerick. So I think I will change my stance on whether it counts as real writing. I mean, what is REAL writing anyway? Og the cavemen could not write a status update to save his life (I know, I was his friend on facebook) but he got his point across. I think that is what I LOVE about it, precisely what you pointed out - people are doing what I have been told to do at every workshop I every attended "Show it don't tell it".

I love facebook. I have written just about every day for many many years so to suddenly be READ every day is so darned addicting! I may never work again!

With this blog, I was really just publicly chiding myself (my favorite way to chide) for abandoning my blog and not seeking the next big writing challenge because I am so content with facebook!!

I keep waiting to grow tired of it. It is doubly bad that I got a blackberry at the same time so I can just book away wherever I am! The whole carpool mindless waiting part of motherhood just got a WHOLE LOT BETTER!!

I was just thinking - it is like those pictures in the Harry Potter movies with real people in them. Facebook is like reading a book where the characters are real, and you care about all of them!!

Glad to re-connect and thanks for reading my blog!! Your life looks really cool!