Lee is…

10/07/2007 by Lee.

I normally have a bit of difficulty coming up with something to put here Monday to Friday, but now that problem has doubled. I am having to provide my Facebook friends with status updates on a daily, if not twice daily basis. Not being a pretentious soul (unlike Steven Hawking, a man from Kent that speaks with an American accent) I have problems describing myself in the third person. “Lee is…” is a really poor way to start a sentence describing yourself. Should I really be putting, “Lee is going to work now” or “Lee is at work”? Will this make a difference to your life?

Yet strangely, Facebook is a compelling and vaguely addictive system. Just this week I’ve told the world what I’m reading, exchanged nonsense with an ex-colleague in Jamaica all whilst trying to arrange a reunion between people I haven’t seen for years and are now scattered all over the globe. The old argument goes that technology is destroying human interaction by removing face to face contact with the populous at large, but surely now the argument has turned by 180 degrees. I am in contact with people that I had previously lost touch with, I can quickly dash off a message to a group that are scattered from Calgary to Crawley. The effort required to do this in the past would have prevented me from doing so, but not any longer. I am especially bad at remembering birthdays, but Facebook can tell me when my friends birthdays are, allowing me to send them an email or another message. Suddenly the world is a better connected place.

If you can sort the wheat from the chaff, deny the ridiculous applications, be selective who you accept as a friend and manage your notifications, Facebook can be a great tool. Let it get on top of you and you may have to run for the hils though.

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