Im So Over Facebook

I use to love Facebook. I would spent hours and hours talking to friends and playing games. It was an addiction.

In fact up to about a month ago I still loved Facebook but I have since become less and less enchanted with it.

A month ago The BF got a smart phone and now is on Facebook often. He didn't use to do this. In fact if he was on Facebook chance are it was because I logged into his account for some reason or another (With his approval of course). So The BF never know what I was saying on Facebook or posting but now that he has his new fancy smart phone he is always checking status of friends and family and ME.

This is not a big deal I don't post the details of our disagreements or our intimate life on Facebook that's why I have a blog. But I do post a link to my blog and now he reads my blog.

Now I feel like I have to monitor myself and reread what I write to see if he might misunderstand my dry witty humor. I don't want to start a fight because I was a smart ass on my blog one day.

So honey if you are reading this please stop reading my blog, its making me paranoid.

Thank goodnees we have Google+ now.
P.S. I love you baby.

Dating Your Friends Ex-Husband

Recently it was brought to my attention that I have not written about how I ended up dating my friend’s ex-husband, I have written about the dumb things he says, his patience with the things I do, my insecurities about our relationship and my frustrations but not about how we meet. I often get questions like did you know her before you meet him? Did you become friends later? Was she mad at you? Is it weird? And the answer are yes, we became better friends, no and sometimes. So for all the curious out there this is how to date your friend’s ex-husband or at least how I ended up doing it.

On my 34th birthday (how can I possibly be in my 30s) I was out to dinner with some friends. We were all laughing and joking when someone asked what my birthday wish was for the year. My response was I need a Mr. Right Now (sorry mom), I have been single for 4 years I am tired of working on myself I want to work on someone else. After much laughter and remarks about my non-sex life, one of my friends said I can set you up with my ex-husband, actually will you please date him?

After even more laughter I said sure why not wait what's wrong with him. She said nothing. This of course caused us all to laugh more and ask why she is not married to him if there is nothing wrong with him. She claimed that they were just bad together but he is a good guy and good father. So I laughing said sure give him my number I am desperate enough to date my friend's ex-husband.

Now I didn't think she would really do it, after all that's weird setting friends up with your ex-husband, no matter how casual of friends.

That night when I got home I noticed I had a text message that said Hi, this is _______. Happy Birthday! I was a bit confused. Random texts from people I don’t know wishing me happy bday is odd even for my life. Then I remember my friend saying she's going to give my number to her ex. So I text him back.

For 3 months we send texts but never talked on the phone or met. He keep trying to get together but it was a bad time in my life and I was a little freaked out about dating my friend’s ex-husband because it is weird. I am a very "modern" person but it was just weird. The only person who knew we were even texting was his ex-wife/my friend. I told no one. Not my close friends, not my sister, not my best friend, no one.

Then in January he asked me if I had seen the movie Avatar yet, which I hadn't. So I finally agreed to go out with him. This caused a fair amount of panic on my apart and then on my friends part when I told them. First I had to call his ex-wife/my friend to make sure she really was ok with all this and then I need to have a wardrobe consultation with my friends who were all shocked that for 3 months I was texting someone and then some how managed not to tell them. I am not known for my secretive nature.

That night he picked me up took me to dinner, the bookstore, a movie, and then we went back to his house to watch another movie. At 2:45AM he drove through the treacherous canyon and took me home. And I will be honest we necked a little in front of my house (again sorry mom). I made him promise to text me when he got home. And he did. We made plans for the next weekend, then the next then the next and soon I was spending the weekends at his house meeting his kids and family.

His ex-wife/my friend and I became closer friends. She says she doesn't have to worry about the kids because she knows I am good with kids and I’m a kind person. Plus she gets to go around saying she picked her ex-husbands new girlfriend.

And I get to have a kick ass how you met story, post things on Twitter and Facebook like shopping with my boyfriend’s ex-wife and get to see the looks on people's faces when I tell them, I’m dating my friend's ex-husband. Not to mention endless fodder for my blog.

What the hell Facebook?????

I like to think that I have a happy funny blog. I don't want one of those angry rant filled blogs. I enjoy reading those but it’s not me. I am a happy person and want to share happiness and joy. Occasionally I will have a post that expresses my frustration but those are short and over quickly.

This post is going to be an angry post. I am sorry but I am feeling attacked and my fight or flight syndrome says strike back in the only way you can.....BLOG IT!!!!

Last night as I am getting ready to call it a night and I check Facebook and blogger one last time I realized I forgot to post yesterdays blog post on Facebook (turns out I had but just forgot). Feeling the need to share with my family and friends I quickly try to share my post.

Facebook in return send me this message:
This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy. Let us know if you think this is an error.

WHAT???? Abusive or spammy, are you serious??? I've never even heard of the word spammy before. I'm guessing it has something to do with spam. Now they are comparing my blog to spam. Are they serious?

I figured it was so error so I click the provided link and get this message:
I am blocked from adding content.You are trying to post content on Facebook that has been marked as abusive. You may request to have this block lifted from Facebook by contacting us below. Please note that we're unable to reply to every bug report at this time, but we may contact you for more details about the issue as we investigate the report.

 I politely fill out the information requested:
Content you are blocked from posting:
URL:
If you were blocked while trying to share a link, please copy and paste the entire URL here
Reason:
Please explain why you think this is an error

With in a few minutes I get the following email reply:
Unfortunately, after further review, you did not meet the requirements to take over the Page in question. At this time we will not be able to provide you admin rights to this Page. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. For more information about this feature, as well as answers to frequently asked questions, please visit Facebook's Help Center by clicking the link below: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=175

ARE YOU SERIOUS FACEBOOK???? Did you even read my blog or review anything on it. I don't even have ads on it. Cant say that about Facebook. You get bombarded with ads on that web site.

So now instead of simply clicking the nice little share button I have to copy and paste the URL for my posts to appear on my FB profile. This is not a big deal, except that I feel that Facebook is being lazy by not clearly investigating my request for review.

Please copy and paste the URL and link into your Facebook page to protest!!!

Hurry, Quick...I Need Mark Zuckerberg's Email

Last night I was watching The Social Network for the 4th time and tweeting away. And being that I have seen this movie 4 times my mind started to wonder...Is it wrong to tweet while watching a movie about the creator of Facebook? This led to me wondering is there proper etiquette to Twitter and Facebook. It doesn't appear that there is and if there is proper etiquette no one is following it. And where would I find these rules of Etiquette. Do I have to join a group page on Facebook or follow them on Twitter? And for brief moment, while Jesse Eisenberg/Mark Zuckerberg was going on about how no they do not have his full attention, I  wondered what would Emily Post say about Social Networking.

I'm sure if I Googled or Binged Social Networking Etiquette I would get a million or so hits. But I really want to know what the original Emily Post would say. Never mind they didn't have computers or the casual attitude we all have about...EVERYTHING. If she was alive today would she be appalled at our ability to convey so much in 140 characters or less? Would she think that sharing all the details of our life appalling? For that matter what would she think about blogging. I started thinking about the content of my blog and realized that 10 years ago I would never share all the crazy events, insecurities and intimate details of my life but now I think its fun!

These thoughts all let to a one very random thought about Mark Zuckerberg. I would like to preface this random thought by saying, I loved the movie The Social Network. I also assume that it is mostly incorrect, Hollywood loves to jazz up a story and until I get a chance to ask Mark I am going with the assumption 50% fact 50% fiction. I also LOVE Facebook. It has given me the opportunity to connect with old friends, meet new friends and stay connected to my family.

But here is my random thought...Did Mark Zuckerberg create a line in all his coding that he would be sent notification every time someone said something about him? Because I think I would.

That's right I am just insecure enough to want to know what the 500 million Facebook users thought about me if I was the creator of Facebook.

That reminds me of a line in the movie..."If your clients were the inventors of Facebook they would have invented Facebook". Or something like that.