What’s happened to our friends who aren’t on Facebook? I often wonder, and it seems as though I’ve just lost track of them. It used to be that we would keep in contact with our Rolodex of friends through our Rolodex. Call, catch up, sometimes the calls would be too frequent and others not frequent enough. You’d catch up on what was happening in each other’s lives. Some calls would be short and sweet, and others would last too long. 
Today, we only have to scan our Facebook wall to see what our friends are up to and share the joy and sorrow that they experience in life. We’re also able to expand our Rolodex of friends, people with whom we wouldn’t necessarily have a phone conversation but with whom we care enough to see how they are doing. We have active friends, we have friends who are too active, and then we all have our voyeur friends—those who rarely make a post but know that I went to the game last Saturday. Over the past three years, I have seemed to have grown closer to all my Facebook friends, while the people I feel fairly close to who aren’t on Facebook have fallen off my radar. To me, Facebook is a real-time and huge money saver because I do not have to have the maximum number of minutes on my cell plan. Sometimes, someone I haven’t bumped into in a while will pop into my head, and I’ll wonder what he or she is up to, and then it goes away because they’re not on Facebook. I’m wondering if I’m becoming a Facebook snob. I feel like not on Facebook, then I don’t have the time for you. I like to multitask, follow up, and catch up with my friends on my time and on my wall.
- Updated: October 13, 2024Originally Published: January 19, 2011
- Author: Mike Frey
- Blog: Beyond the Pond Blog
- Category: Miscellaneous Insights, Social Media Marketing Insights
- Tags: Facebook, Phone, Social media, friends, real time
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Before co-founding Paradux Media Group, Mike spent more than 15 years in the world of marketing and advertising. While working with hundreds of locally owned businesses, he developed an appreciation for minimizing clients’ dollars while maximizing tangible results for those clients.
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Thanks for the comment Tom. My percentage of friends who actively post is probably similar to yours. I find a lot of people who just read and don’t contribute with posts do come in with the occasional like, I usually have to do a double take and go oh ya I remember you. I do find that a lot of people who rarely contribute with posts read a lot of my blogs. I have people that I forget that we’re even friends because they don’t post comment to me on a blog that I wrote, or will say I really liked that restaurant too. So while they don’t contribute directly with posts they may be contributing in other ways. again thank you very much for the read and the contribution!
I know that it is to each their own, and sometimes I feel bad judging people because they don’t have facebook, but come on people get with the times. I mean the people who refuse to get facebook always have their reasons why they won’t get it. Usually ignorant reasons that make no sense. I mean really you can’t knock it till you try.. People have the strangest reasons that they won’t join facebook and think they make sense…Imagine when the phone was invented the last person who refused to get it, telling people “It’s just not personal, I’d rather write a letter.”
It was more personal, and actually brings people together better than they could before as facebook does today.
Technology is a tool that allows us to grow and change for the positive…Don’t be afraid, rather grow with the times and embrace technology not as a scary platform, but as just another tool to increase your quality of life.
Thanks for sharing,
Ernest Falconer
http://stillnice.com
Thank you Ernest, well said and couldn’t AGREE more. Have a great day!!