The Facebook Dilemma
So – I haven’t written on here for a while, but fret not! All is not lost. I have just been busy. But kind of not really. I’m back working at the Gap and doing all the recordings during the summer so that’s keeping me partially busy. You’ll see below two versions of a recording I did with Chris Ho recently. It was a good time, and I think that the recording turned out well. Thoughts? Do you like version one or the remixed version two?
I did well in school. Passed all my classes. One D – in my super tough electrical engineering course (Thank GOD – no more elec), 2 B+’s and 2 A’s. This has definitely been one of my
more successful years even though I did get two D’s. So – I’m glad to be done that, and enjoying summer.
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So the main thing I wanted to rant about today was my Facebook Dilemma. It’s about choosing who to add and who not to add. There are lots of people who I see on a semi-regular basis and have classes with and talk with in those classes occasionally. I would not consider these people my friends but they are people I could talk to at a party or in a social setting. Being kind of an outsider in the School of Music – that means there’s a lot of people who don’t really know me and vice versa, even though we’ve had classes together for 3 years now.
Should I be adding these people to my Facebook who aren’t really friends but decent enough acquaintances to justify a friend request? I know lots of people treat Facebook differently and think that “You should only add your true friends and people you actually know.” And then there’s the flip side of people who add just about everyone and anyone to their friends list. It’s all about how open and how social you are. I feel that I’m somewhere in the middle and will add people even though I’m not necessarily friends with them. I figure I might as well – there’s really no harm since I keep my Facebook pretty secure in what I share.
My general rule of thumb is if I would say hi to them on the street or nodded in passing (in terms of guys) then I can add them as a friend. To me this means that we know who each other are and share some kind of acknowledgement or whatever you want to call it. This also works pretty easy for deleting people – if I see them in public and make direct eye contact and they don’t say hi – I’ll delete them from my account.
Oh the tough life of a suburban university student. Who to add on Facebook such a huge dilemma.
What are your thoughts? Who do you add? Do you have filters for different groups of people?
- J
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Joining the rest of the world…
So tomorrow! I’m getting an iPhone! Yay for me! There’s a good deal on at Virgin for a plan, and my birthday is coming up – so that’s all I want right now. So that’s what I’m going to get. I really should be studying for my Electrical Engineering midterm tomorrow, but it’s not the concepts of Elec that I’m not very good at, it’s the Math 101 and calculus stuff. Sigh.
“I.” Sometimes “M.”
I just read this comic by Stephan Pastis. It’s from the series Pearls Before Swine. If you don’t read it already, you should. I really liked this one, mostly because I really like the Abbott and Costello routine that it’s adapted from. Pastis is great at stealing from popular culture and making a pun out of it. I love it. Below is the aforementioned “Who’s On First Routine.” Oh man.
So I decided to put off studying for my electrical engineering exam today to do some recording. The product of that is in the post below this. There’s a few songs that I might finish sometime in due time. On Sunday, I bought some monitors off Ebay, so if you were planning to get them for me for Christmas, don’t. I got it covered. Hopefully they’ll be here sooner rather than later. But ugh, don’t remind me. Exams. I have 3 in the first three days of next week. It’s going to be terrible. I really hope that I pass three of these classes. I definitely don’t want to have to do them again.
My house has magically become a Christmas wonderland. And by that I mean my roommates hung up lights in our living room. There is a lot of lights. We have two little trees and some other random Christmas stuff. I’m not really big into the whole Christmas spirit or what-have-you, so this is kinda silly to me. I just like the presents part.
Happy Birthday to Girlfriend’s mom yesterday (as it is the 2nd when I am writing this) and Happy Birthday to Sam (collaborator of JuSTB) today. Even though neither of them probably read this.
Classes have come to that point where nothing seems to matter anymore. I haven’t done two of my last Software Engineering assignments. I’m just hoping that I can pass that final. I feel like you have to have a lot more prior knowledge going into that course to be able to do well (like knowing how to program in C). So I’m pretty apathetic to it all.
Blah, I don’t feel like writing anything else today. Nothing interesting happens to me anymore. Or ever.
Later days,
- J
