Friendster Does Have Its Uses
So when I first joined Friendster it seemed pretty novel and interesting. I wasn't into joining a meat market site like match.com becase I wasn't interested in meeting anyone but I thought it would be a cool way to keep in touch with friends.
Well Friendster got really popular and then it got to be a real pain to use. Slow, unreliable email, weird message boards. Some folks were inviting me to move over to Tribe.net. Tribe works a lot better than Friendster does but since most people I know already joined Friendster it was going to be impossible to shift everyone over there. So I continued to use Friendster.
Anyway it's really paid off in the last few weeks. First I met a cool new friend on there who I seem to have commonality with. Then I get reunited with my old friends Bill and Shannon who I used to hang out with ten years ago. Plus I was also reunited with an old ex-boyfriend Jeff, who hung out with Bill and Shannon and I. It was nice to hear from him and I was happy to see that a) he didn't hate me still and b) he married a girl who he'd had a crush on since Junior High and they have now been married for ten years and have two kids and he's happy and doing well.
Sometimes I really wish I would have kept in touch with my friends but I seemed to float around so much and it's hard for me to manage my life, work and lots of friends. It's not really an excuse but I'm not sure why it is that happens. I'm hoping I get settled down more in my life at some point where I can sustain the same group of friends for a long period of time. Plus that makes me realize that I need to keep up on my friendships with some of my friends now and not wait around for them to completely die out.
Well Friendster got really popular and then it got to be a real pain to use. Slow, unreliable email, weird message boards. Some folks were inviting me to move over to Tribe.net. Tribe works a lot better than Friendster does but since most people I know already joined Friendster it was going to be impossible to shift everyone over there. So I continued to use Friendster.
Anyway it's really paid off in the last few weeks. First I met a cool new friend on there who I seem to have commonality with. Then I get reunited with my old friends Bill and Shannon who I used to hang out with ten years ago. Plus I was also reunited with an old ex-boyfriend Jeff, who hung out with Bill and Shannon and I. It was nice to hear from him and I was happy to see that a) he didn't hate me still and b) he married a girl who he'd had a crush on since Junior High and they have now been married for ten years and have two kids and he's happy and doing well.
Sometimes I really wish I would have kept in touch with my friends but I seemed to float around so much and it's hard for me to manage my life, work and lots of friends. It's not really an excuse but I'm not sure why it is that happens. I'm hoping I get settled down more in my life at some point where I can sustain the same group of friends for a long period of time. Plus that makes me realize that I need to keep up on my friendships with some of my friends now and not wait around for them to completely die out.
