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By: Original Corruptors Membership Drive « Cheeze Whiz and Mustard

Original Corruptors Membership Drive « Cheeze Whiz and Mustard — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:02:12 +0000

[...] I think is incomplete at best), I quite like the title. Maybe I’ll start a group for Erika, Bon and I. Maybe with some sort of bling for my blog to let the world know about the [...]

By: and i’d like to humbly thank…er…think » cribchronicles.com

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:02:26 +0000

[...] please excuse me whilst i go over there and finish my latest thoughts on this facebook phenomenon. and class. and what this article here has to say about facebook being the Pottery Barn [...]

By: mamatulip

mamatulip — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:24:24 +0000

Facebook, to me, is kind of like a virtual address book, with a lot more than addresses. It’s interesting to me, but I don’t see the attraction the way some people obviously do (like my *cough* husband). I mean, it’s cool, I’ve found cool people on it, I use it as a means to communicate with certain people in my life — but it’s no blogging, that’s for sure.

Great post, Bon.

By: Her Bad Mother

Her Bad Mother — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:04:38 +0000

You’re so right – social networking doesn’t compare to blogging. There’s so much less conversation. REAL conversation.

By: mimi

mimi — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:05:57 +0000

Even thinking about Facebook makes me hyperventilate. It all seems so shallow and so very very voyeuristic — the thrill is in collecting, in seeing, but then what? What do you do? The panopticon aspects of it are dismaying too. I prefer tooling away in my little corner of the momosphere.

By: Chaos Control

Chaos Control — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:55:12 +0000

Feeling a bit old and out of touch with what’s going on in today’s world, I established a Facebook account last week. Tried finding a few old friends, to no avail. But that’s quite possibly due to user error on my part.

I agree with you – it pales in comparison to blogging. And I’d say that even if I were talented enough to find friends via Facebook.

By: Redneck Mommy

Redneck Mommy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:02:24 +0000

Still struggling with my version of this post for HBM myself.

Facebook…well, it has lead me to several old friends I have lost contact with.

But it distracts me from blogging and I much prefer communicating this way.

By: Mrs. Chicken

Mrs. Chicken — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:44:09 +0000

Facebook freaks me out. I joined, but only because a client I freelance for added me as a contact. Then the invites from other bloggers I love started flowing in. I accept, but I don’t really hang there.

For all the reasons you’ve articulated so well here.

Have I mentioned that I have a deep, ingrained fear of academia and the associated academics? Strange, since I married one, eh?

Nonetheless, you’ve made me think. I’m struggling to put down my thoughts about the intellectual aspect of blogging, and failing miserably. Thank you for the inspiration, Bon!

By: cinnamon gurl

cinnamon gurl — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:18:36 +0000

First, I loved this for the way my tongue wrapped around blogging is boggling:

the scope for personality to come through in blogging is boggling.

Second, I joined facebook mostly to look for my first boyfriend…

And third, yeah, give me blogging any day. I hate that I can’t do anything without everybody being notified…

By: Fencile

Fencile — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:18:26 +0000

I never really thought of it all that way. I also never really understood Facebook/MySpace either. But then again…I guess for teens & young adults it’s a lot like the blog is for me. Expression. Freedom. Social network.