After taking a year and a half off to live in St. George by myself, I am back to living in the bubble, and with roommates. Which so far has proven to be AMAZING. The ladies that I live with are some of the most Quality bunch yet. I will keep you posted as I get more into this endevor. Also My HOUSE is incredible. That makes the living with roommates again, fun and exciting. I am not crapped into some dirty little rat hole. It is a nice, new and spacious town house in Orem, witn the most most amazing club house pool theatre room EVER. (and one of my best friends lives around the corner, though she does live with her hubby, its not bad).
Draw Backs of the Roomie Situation:
Being concerned my bathroom buddy and i are on the same get ready schedule.
Not all the food in the house is mine.
There is no where to put my good =)
MISSING TIVO, though there is a DVR I should learn to work.
Maybe the DSM should include “Chronic Singleness” when they put out the next addition.
Diagnosis Criteria: • Having reached an age considered not acceptable to be unmarried in your culture • Not currently engaged in a long term relationship • Lack of desire to act desperate in order to get a date • Inability to sustain a long term relationship over 6 months • Inability to commit to an acceptable partner due to fear, anxiety or laziness • Unwillingness to date potential suitors that undesirable personality characteristics such as but not limited to the following: arrogance, low IQ, lack of sense of humor, inability to speak in public place, excessive shyness, judgmental, rudeness and so on. • Unwillingness to date potential suitors that have undesirable life circumstances such as but not limited to the following: homeless, unemployment, bad personal hygiene, excessive debt, addiction problems and so on.
So with the on slot of easy internet means to keep track of your friends, family, enemies and people you secretly wish would have terrible things happen to them, are we networking for good? With the invention of Facebook, MySpace, Friendster?, Second Life (which I only really heard about on The Office), Mormon MySpace (which apparently is a great way to meet people? I THINK NOT), and the list goes on and on (Did you know these existed List of Networking Websites ), what is the point of all of it?
I was goofing around online, at work…I am currently a stay at home single, and found this article: Top Ten Social Networking Annoyances. It talks about the over personalized MySpace page, the spam in your in box, the fake porn starts who want to be your friend and all that. That is addressed in this little clip: Here is my own little list: 1. People asking me to join a group about a social causes, they do not really care about. 2. The constant on slot of application requests on Facebook. 3. When other people have private profiles ( I mean I have a private profile, but everyone else should be open for the world to look at. 4. Bad virtual friends who do not comment, let alone comment back when something is funny. 5. Not being tagged in photos I am OBVIOUSLY in 6. Facebook telling me to add people that I might know, simply because ONE of my 385 friends knows them…. That feature was cool for like two days. 7. Real fights happening because of crap on a networking site. 8. Crappy bands adding me simply because I live in their zip code. I guess I should add the “Are You Interested” application and attack my dating life with Facebook. Or get on LDS Link up and start fishing for hot guys to meet IRL (they only want some booty). I have friends that have done both, these scenarios ALWAYS end badly.
So I guess the point of it all, is to show off your own super cool life through neat pictures of places you have been, funny wall post and occasionally a blog or status update informing people how amazing your life is. I mean why hang out in real life, when I can instant message my friends who live across town. Or send them a virtual gift on their birthday instead of showing up at their party. Who needs to call your friends when you can simply invite them to an e-vent. Honestly, I am considering meeting a Romanian who I can email every night, and call this whole dating thing good.
I feel a little old to be stuck in virtual high school, yet for some reason I can’t stop myself. Good luck to you all in escaping the grasp of online social networking. At least you have a spouse to help you cut the habit.
