I hate Facebook. I hate how it allows me to slight and hide from the people who are important to me and to put up a face for those that I have only talked to once or not at all. What is the point? How many people do I or you have on our friends lists that we would actually talk to on a regular basis? Why is it a necessary piece of our lives? We all check it almost everyday if not hourly. Lets be honest, we are attention addicts. We love to feel like we are cared for and just absolutely love it when a "friend" sends us a link or a note. My sister actually told me that she needed to check her Facebook or else it would "kill" her. Is Facebook a biological necessity? Last I checked only food, water, and shelter were the absolutely necessary.

You know what I have come to find? I find that the friends who are there for you and are most genuine are those that take the time to contact me without Facebook. They don't see Facebook as an easy way to say "hey" and they don't use it as a substitute for a face-to-face conversation. They take the time to write the letter, have lunch, or sit down and talk. For them it isn't about convenience or the message itself, it is about who they are talking to.

I often ignore people on Facebook. I have clicked the "Ignore" button more times than I can count because of the irrelevance of the item being sent. I don't care about your stupid farm or your mafia gang. They are just stupid, time-wasting games. I want to care about you as a person. I want you to care the same about me and not limit the interaction and friendship to what can be expressed in text or through a programmers limited view of the world.

Have you ever noticed how there is always a new layout to Facebook? Every time it changes everyone complains that they liked how the old one worked better or that they wish things were in different places. All of these interface changes are made in order to allow you to better interface with your friends and access their information easier. Has it ever crossed our mind that the perfect interface has always existed? It is called our face. When someone is interested in who I am or what I care about or what my opinion on a certain topic is, they would quite simply ask me and my face would allow me to form an answer with both accuracy and expression.

Lets be what we were made to be, humans first and mindless, cold electronics almost never. Lets keep technology in its place as an extension of ourselves and our creative ability, but never as a replacement for it. We are our true faces, not our Facebooks.