Face-off
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 28th, 2009
I know that I raved about Facebook awhile back, but right now all I want to do is face-off.
I have loved connecting with old friends and new, but lately I have discovered that Facebook takes up way too much time and most of the chitchat is superficial. Not that there is anything wrong with superficial as long as it is in spurts. And not that there is anything wrong in letting everyone know that you just ate a bowl of oatmeal or that the colors of the sunset are amazing.
It’s nice to feel that you are privy to the little snippets of friends lives when life is too busy to check in with more than just a one-liner. And yes, I have used Facebook too, to replace much of my emailing and I have had wonderful conversations that are much more than ‘superficial’.
So what’s my problem? I am a task driven person and a bit anal about details. Love is in the details but yes the devil hides there too. :) And what I mean by that is, it is very difficult for me to not address someone if someone has addressed me. And the more time that passes knowing that I need to respond, answer, say hello to…etc. etc., the more it weighs on my mind as ‘unfinished business’.
It is just the way that I am. When something needs to be handled in my life, I usually tackle it the moment it comes in because I don’t want to have it on my mind. If it is something that can not be handled at the moment, it goes on my ‘to-do’ list. I love making ‘checkmarks’ when something is complete.
However, with Facebook, it is beginning to feel like a never ending project that never gets completed, no matter how many ‘checkmarks’ I make. Now, how fun is that? Lately: None. And since connecting with friends shouldn’t be like marking off a task, I have decided to not respond at all. Which, let me tell you, is so difficult for me, and so not like me at all.
So to those of you who have been Facebooking me, I am facing-off for a little while. I am not sure how long or when I will be back, but I don’t see myself facing-off forever. Just for now, I want to be a bit old fashioned in these techie modern times.
Just for now I am craving real connections, either in person or on the phone, where I can hear your tone and inflections that give me true meaning to your voices. Connections where I can hear your excitement, feel your passion and join in on the laughter. (So much more enjoyable than a smiley face :)…Connections where I can have compassion for you in your upset or support and comfort you in your worry with a real hug. For those that want to connect with me this way, and you know who you are, let’s converse live in real time. Call me if you want to connect. I will do the same.
And to my readers who only know me through this blog: If my only way of connecting to you is through this venue, this is where my commitment has been and always will be. This venue has always been way more than a one-liner. :)
Facing-off from Facebook….but only signing off from here….
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michelle
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March 29th, 2009 at 9:27 am
I watched Geithner on “This Week.” He outlined the problems this country faces on its financial front. Because of the lack of regulation that was needed to prevent those problems the government was left with three options. He out lined those three options and explained why he chose the one he did.
Geithner also pointed out that the bonus problem envolved the government having to honor contracts that the government didn’t want to honor. He also pointed out that their was no regulation in place that would allow the government to act LEGALLY to deal with that issue and a whole host of others that the FDIC could do it they were banks.
It was the republican party beginging with Reagan and ending with Bush that sold the deregulation of these entities to the detriment of the of the American people.
Now that same group of crooks are arguing for more of the same. The American people are being forced fed the logic of small minded white men.
My bitch this morning is that it seems to be status quo. After Geithner finished we were treated with four white men and a white woman thrown in for show. They were there to tell us what the alternative to what Geithner had just outlined.
The problem with that was that these were the same white men that caused the problem in the first place. When the President of Brazil said that the financial problems of the world were caused by “blue eyed men” he was saying that white men caused this problem.
He was simply stating an indisputable fact. Problems are solved by understanding how the problem arose and the cause of that problem.
The white boy’s solution was to deny that he was the cause. Immediately white boys the world over set out to belittle what the President of Brazil said.
Next they set about trying to get the consciousnesses of the rest of us to accept the bullshit that “we are all responsible for this debacle.”
We may be all INVOLVED in this problem, but we were not ALL the cause of it. Only white men controlled the engines that ran that bus off the clift.
Now we are forced to listen to the same white boy mentality telling the rest of us how to get out of their mess.
Robert
March 29th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I can’t believe it. The site is open again. What is going on. I didn’t see any of the regulars. Howie and Al went first. The Doug disappeared and now no Zen Lill.
I have tried to get in and no way. I hope now that Robert has made it I can.
Melanie
March 29th, 2009 at 9:45 am
WOW!!!!
Michelle, you said what I have been thinking about my Face book problems so much better than I could. I will be coping what you said and pasting it on my facebook page.
I miss the inflections and other nuisances that make talking in person or on the phone so much more intimate. Thanks for giving the the words to express my dilema.
Claire
March 29th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Robert, I agree am a white guy but I agree with the assertion that white men caused this world financial problem. We run the the banks and the investment houses that ran on the princile of greed.
I also agree that those same people are using the fear of inflation to keep their hold on the financial reins.
Mark
March 29th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Robert, I too am sick of the white man telling us that we are all at fault. Most people use credit to purchase what they need. So do businessess, why are we the people to blame if we use credit.
Paul Krugman is a classic example of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. Just because he got a nobel doesn’t mean he understands this problem. If he knew so much why didn’t sound an alarm when the bush boys were allowing the financial industry to run wild?
McCain saiding that we should just shut them down is just another scam to arouse the nation without offering real solutions. He knows that we can not just “shut down the bands.” He is just saying that as the republicans said that they had a 19 page budget.
Matthew Dowd, Cokie Roberts, George Will, and Paul Krugman to evaluate and suggests their solutions is ludicrous. How lucky is America that we have a black man to wade through this “bullshit” from the crooked, or uninformed white boy philosophy.
Obama is wise enough to pick intellect that can deal with the problem regardless of the color of the contributor. Yet the news media continues to put before the American people the same pundits that were there during the crime. None voiced a single objection.
None seem to understand the problem. They keep suggesting solutions that were not legally available to the people like Geithner when they came to the problem.
Those same pundits will be objecting to the government when they ask Congress to give the government the authority to contol and deal with the crisis.
Dwight
March 29th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Michelle you are so on to the mind set of the rest of us. I couldn’t agree with your comments on facebook more. I am just so tired of my facebook “obligations.”
Today I just pasted your comments in my face book and sat down to enjoying UConn whoop Cal’s ass.
Thank you Michelle
Pearl
March 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Omygod, you’re back on. Okay so where’s the sex? I read this site for the sex. I love the shit the women dish here. It gets me off.