Dealing with Rejection

So you find someone you used to be friends with in Facebook and you send them a chirpy message eg Hi, remember me, we used to go to St Rudolph's when we were eight blah blah blah. Then you get a reply, might be Hiiiiiii! *Scream* Great to hear from you! blah blah blah or a more subdued Hello, yes it's me. How are you?

But sometimes you get a deafening silence. And you know that they have been updating their account because you can see their profile and they have been busy bees high-fiving other people and baking them pies and all sorts.

How do you take this? Well, I take it badly. Really badly. Like, well, fuck you too. You could at least reply. Bitch.

(Please excuse the bad language, I seem to have over-reacted. I'm normally a well-adjusted person, honest.)

Who are you again?

You know what, I must really be getting old because little things are starting to annoy me when they (maybe) wouldn't have annoyed me before.

Now, take Facebook. It's great and the best part is finding people that you have lost touch with. And once in a while, someone finds you...which is also cool.

But why do people send a "friend request" but not even bother to send a message? Like Hi, remember me? I mean, the name might be vaguely familiar and we might have some friends in common - but who are you again? I can't really be bothered to add people for the sake of it. See, I told you - I'm turning into a real grump.

I'm watching you.

Well I've been neglecting my blog lately because of work (boo..) and also because it's coming up to Christmas, so I've been out shopping, eating, spending money etc (hooray...)

I have also been busy on Facebook or "stalkbook" as I call it. I am such a lurker. And all those applications to waste your time, all those data gathering companies monitoring your every move! Yeah, well I don't mind being watched all the time. "Big Brother" watching my every move? Feels just like home :)