Oh dear god--it's Facebook!

[sinanju]

As in, I've signed onto Facebook. A couple of my cow-orkers kept sending me invites and I finally succumbed to temptation and signed up.

We'll see if I continue to use it or if I get bored with it. So far I suspect it will be more engaging than OKCupid, which I am also on. It's more interactive, for one thing. OKCupid is good for a) answering questions (ranging from insightful to inane) or b) emailing other users. But I'm not much interested in emailing other users, though I've replied to a few. While I signed onto OKCupid to see about finding people to see, I've discovered that I don't want to badly enough to bother. Eh.

At the moment, I'm watching my friends network grow. I've friended a number of people, and had others friend me. It's interesting to see who does and who doesn't. There are plenty of people I could friend--but a lot of them are people I only barely know, or really only know by name/handle. Not really friends in any meaningful sense. Do I friend them?

I could, I suppose, but to what purpose? I don't really have anything to say to them, nor they to me most likely. So I'd be doing it just to bump up my number of friends. Which, really, is a pretty silly reason. So I'm really only inviting people I actually think of as friends (or family), or returning invites from others.

In other news...

Taken was a pretty darn good action movie. Liam Neeson makes a good action hero. He was smart. The writing was pretty clever. There were a couple of plot points that never really went anywhere, and unanswered questions I had--but nothing crucial to the story. I liked it that his daughter's step-father was NOT a tool. All to often the new father figure is an ass or a bad guy. Not in this case. His role in the movie was small, admittedly, but he was a decent enough guy--which was nice to see.

I've dropped about 5 or 6 pounds on the 101 program. I weighed myself the other day and was surprised to see that. I'm doing the intermittent fasting thing, and doing the three (now five) Tibetans most every day (though I need to be more consistent on that front). But I wasn't really expecting to see much difference in my weight. It's been pretty consistent for a long time now. Maybe it'll be back up next time I weigh myself. We'll see, I guess.

I don't do a weigh in very often--I'm more interested in how I look than my actual weight. If I can reduce the size of my waist so I'm happy with my appearance, I don't really care what number the scale says. But just for the record, I'm down from 194 to 189 pounds.

As for the 101 program itself...I'm not sure it's going to be as effective for me as I'd hoped. I still feel like I don't have enough information. For instance, the Tibetans. Supposedly these five yoga exercises were chosen (in part) because they can be taught using pictures. Yeah, well...I don't feel confident that I'm doing them correctly. I'd really, really rather see them demonstrated in person or at least in a video. Then I'd be more confident that I'm getting the proper benefit from them.

Comments

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

I tend to cycle with Facebook. A few weeks on, constantly watching and messing around with a few applications, and then, nothing for a few weeks. It's fun, and it's nice to have a way to get in touch with people, but like I said, I cycle.

[meta4life.livejournal.com]

So far as I can see (and I've only been a member since this past December), the only two reasons to friend someone on Facebook are 1) if you want to keep up with their status updates, and/or 2) you want them in one of your game applications on the site (and since you don't care about them in any other way, you can afterward choose to see less of their updates on your "Live Feed").

I have played Pirates until I'm utterly bored with it (level 34) so I'm getting ready to shed the "friends" I added to play that game more effectively. They really, really need a separate mechanism for that kind of thing, IMO.

[kzmiller.livejournal.com]

I went to Steve's Tibetan talk at OryCon and I have a limited background (with good instructors, though) in Yoga. I can answer specific questions and hey, it might be a good excuse to visit you and Kai sometime to go over them in person.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it would! It's an excellent excuse to visit us. Please do!

[snippy]

Do this. Do this now. I just wrote your husband the other day how much I missed coming up there for belly dancing every week. I got to see you both, get some exercise, and learn something all at the same time!