While I'm not amazed by some of the reactions that I have gotten by my sudden change of heart and unexpected embrace of the holy master, WWW, and its ranking Captain known as Facebook, I would like to clarify that is was not just one of his followers that recruited my soul, but a concerted effort by several individuals.
While it is true, that I was out drinking the night of my conversion with my friend Mike, he can not be credited with 100% of my soul. It was a series of conversations with different individuals, as well as one of the leader's true believers, my wife, with her continuous efforts of recruitment that has made me a convert. At one time she told me that it would make her "really happy" if I got a Facebook account...she doesn't even get "really happy" when I do the lawn? So hopefully my conversion has brought her great joy and she has been promoted or rewarded by our great leader.
I think that people who truly know me would have the same reaction if I posted (see I'm evening learning this new language) that I had gone to Church today. I have spent my adult life bashing organized religion and Social Media, the whole while wishing I could embrace something like everyone else was to bring joy and distraction to my life. Everyone that had nothing in common, now has something in common, Facebook, and finally I been branded and joined the herd!
The more conversations I had with people the more I realized that my resistance to the cult was futile and that if I ever wanted to see pictures of my nieces and nephews, have any clue what is going on with my "Friends" (I will explain the " " marks around Friend on a later post) and Family, understand what 90% of the conversations going on around me were or stop having that glazed look on my face when a co-worker lets me know about what was going on with my Family, I had to join the herd. While my new membership in the bother/sister hood of the WWW cost me my soul, it was worth it. Before I felt as if my life and everything going on around me was being held hostage by someone or something (that is how Facebook has moved up so quickly in the ranks of the WWW), but now I have been liberated. By simply creating a user name and password my life was given back to me by the great Facebook...I now have seen pictures of my wedding, my son as a baby (he is 3 & 1/2 now), birthdays, holidays, etc. that I had never seen before.
I will finish each post with the same reminder...if you enjoyed reading my thoughts please come back and click on the Facebook damn (that was play on words..instead of "God damn" - just in case you missed it) advertising so I can get paid. The great and almighty Facebook has promised me that there is money to collect on this interconnected web of computers across the world, and I want my share. My hope is to go viral, so ping you friends with this blog, text them the "www", spray paint it on their wall, comment on their Face or whatever you can do to get me rich. If you think that this thing sucks then don't come back and if you are offended by my remarks to religion then UnFriend me because it ain't going to get any better.
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