One of Those Songs From Glee, or, Moving Forward

It's no secret.

I...HATE...FACEBOOK.

I wish I could love it. I wish I could use it to the best of my ability, like the manipulative love affair that I have with Twitter. But there's something about Facebook that spells the following to me:

• I'm a failure. No husband, no kids, no traditional employment (heck, no employment that involves the rich and famous).
• I'm unimportant. No comments = no one gives a crap that I exist.

Which is why I'm trying not to sign in to it. It hit me yesterday, thinking on it, that I'm fighting a few things here with Facebook:

• Very few of my friends are readers. Most just play games or post pictures.
• Very few of my friends have the same amount of friends that I have or fewer. I can't imagine how they keep with their friends, especially those at more than 100 friends. I have a feeling that in order to get their attention I would either have to shut down my FB account (tempting...) or threaten something rash (also tempting).

But I'm trying to move in another direction instead.

The new goal is to not check FB, and instead start working on other sites that focus more writing, like Gather and Twitter. I can post things remotely, but I don't need to check on it to see if anyone said hi. Most people don't say hi. And friends who enjoy me the way I am talk to me in e-mail, on Twitter, or via text.

Less posts, no visits, and no letting folks know about the new blog posts. The list won't read them anyway. The link will stay up. A diamond in the rough for the diehards, should they exist. My life in Facebook will show up by remote feed from other websites, that help me to rise up and celebrate life. Not this moronic, constant, popularity contest on-line.

(A remarkable coincidence, since Zuckerberg seemed to create this idea from being socially rejected. Maybe that's why I think it sucks...it spawned from pain and didn't nurture healing.)

Please, FB, let me quit you.

P.S. - This is where the title of this post of Life For Rent comes from. This is obviously not the Glee version, but I love this version and couldn't find a clip from Glee that wasn't just audio. Enjoy, and onward, dear reader.