The Book

I have several things. First of all, and don't lie to yourself cause we both know it's true - don't you hate it when those songs come on that make you literally mentally jump from wherever you are to wherever you were when you first got attached to that music? I know I do.

The way music can transform your life is something I used to yearn for. The way that just one song, one guitar lick or lyric can make you revisit emotions and memories now faded with time is a double edged sword to say the least.

This brings me to my next thought. I hate how in order to block someone on Facebook (the book) it automatically takes it upon itself (you know its an entity unto its own) to de-friend that person.

Last fall I blocked someone I wasn't sure I had the willpower to not check up on and to my dismay I realized that in blocking said non-boyfriend [and his friends] that the book had taken it upon itself to de-friend all of them. This made for a rather awkward healing process of re-friending them all.

I mean what does that say about me? "Hey, I was upset because you're a dick but now all is forgiven so will you re-accept my friend request?" If that doesn't get 'em, I don't know what will.

The book and I have a long standing love hate relationship, but this put me over the edge. I now am a rare book user, not anywhere close to the addict I once called myself. Facebook is a strange and wonderful new technology that has been introduced to the world, but with the website comes the knowledge that people who weren't there last night know exactly what you were up to and who with and for how long and what you looked like and omgg SHE DID NOT. Give me a break, if I wanted you to know the inner-workings of my social life [or lack there of] then I would pick up the phone and call, text or email you. But I didn't.